lonely
- affected with, characterized by, or causing a depressing feeling of being alone; lonesome.
- destitute of sympathetic or friendly companionship, intercourse, support, etc.: a lonely exile.
- lone; solitary; without company; companionless.
- remote from places of human habitation; desolate; unfrequented; bleak: a lonely road.
- standing apart; isolated: a lonely tower.
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heartache, desolation, solitude, alienation, aloneness, withdrawal, solitariness, seclusion, remoteness, forlornness, lonesomenessExamples from the Web for loneliness
Contemporary Examples of loneliness
She spent almost two years in a nursing home – two years of loneliness she would like to forget.
It suggests that love and loneliness are not separate things.
Wonder Woman’s Creation Story Is Wilder Than You Could Ever ImagineTom Arnold-Forster
November 3, 2014
These include tips on how to avoid boredom, loneliness, frustration, and anxiety.
Zen, Motorcycles, And The Cult of Tech: How Robert Pirsig’s Classic Anticipated the FutureNathaniel Rich
August 31, 2014
You feel a horrible, self-punishing sense of isolation and loneliness.
That incorporates all of the happiness—beaches, sledding, love—and pain—war, death, loneliness.
Historical Examples of loneliness
It's the cursed fear of loneliness and the fear of having time to think.
Way of the LawlessMax Brand
But into his loneliness and despair the girl had came like a ray of light.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
To-night—to-night, he is rocking just the same, in silence, in loneliness.
The Bacillus of BeautyHarriet Stark
He felt reassured in a measure, but a sense of loneliness filled him.
The Foolish LoversSt. John G. Ervine
I should die of misery and fright and loneliness in this awful jungle.
The Monster MenEdgar Rice Burroughs
lonely
- unhappy as a result of being without the companionship of othersa lonely man
- causing or resulting from the state of being alonea lonely existence
- isolated, unfrequented, or desolate
- without companions; solitary