📖 Definitions of "Lonesome"
noun
- 1
Oneself alone.
"I sat and watched the cars pass all by my lonesome."
adjective
- 1
Unhappy due to being alone; lonely.
🔄 Synonyms of "Lonesome"
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💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Lonesome"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| lonely | Unhappy due to feeling isolated from contact with other people. |
| lonenoun | Solitary; having no companion. |
| onlynoun | Without others or anything further; exclusively. |
| singlenoun | Not accompanied by anything else; one in number. |
| solenoun | Only. |
| solitarynoun | Living or being by oneself; alone; having no companion present |
| dejected | Sad and dispirited. |
| alone | By oneself, solitary. |
| loonsome | (pronunciation spelling) lonesome |
| solitairenoun | (board games) A game for one person, played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping", as in draughts. |
| uncompanioned | Without companions; alone, friendless. |
| alonest | (nonstandard) Most alone or isolated. |
| alonely | (archaic) Only; merely; singly. |
| sullen | Having a brooding ill temper; sulky. |
| solitudinous | Characterised by solitude |
| alonernoun | A person who enjoys being alone, but without the antisocial connotations of being a "loner". |
| companionlessnoun | Without a companion; friendless, alone. |
| forlorn | Pitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken. |
| desolate | Deserted and devoid of inhabitants. |
| unfriended | Having no friends; friendless. |
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