lonely
adjective, lone·li·er, lone·li·est.
Origin of lonely
Synonyms for lonely
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Related Words for lonely
solitary, desolate, isolated, deserted, reclusive, homeless, lonesome, destitute, empty, remote, quiet, abandoned, alone, apart, disconsolate, down, forsaken, godforsaken, left, loneExamples from the Web for lonely
Contemporary Examples of lonely
The 289-page satire follows Morris Feldstein, a pharmaceutical salesman who gets seduced by a lonely receptionist.
They want Marvin to be as mean and as lonely and as trashy as the characters he portrays.
That is why Malloy is campaigning on a lonely stretch of barber shops and boxing gyms in New Haven a week before the election.
Dan Malloy Is Progressives’ Dream Governor. So Why Isn’t He Winning?David Freedlander
October 30, 2014
I found their melancholy inviting and I appreciated their contemplative, lonely world.
To be a woman suffering from a drinking problem in America is a lonely enterprise, defined by stigma and judgment.
Historical Examples of lonely
It is their virtue in life to be lonely, and none but the lonely man in tragedy may be great.
Riders to the SeaJ. M. Synge
I am almost as lonely as I was on some of those evenings in the old boarding-house.
Ester Ried Yet SpeakingIsabella Alden
I am a lonely man, my sweeting, and I must settle some day when the wars are over and done.
The White CompanyArthur Conan Doyle
You can be lonely in a crowd, and I guess—is there any one around here you like better than me?
KMary Roberts Rinehart
If she had said she was lonely because the cherry bookcase was in Paris, he could not have been more bewildered.
KMary Roberts Rinehart