lonesome
7
3.5
- adjective
- /ˈloʊnsəm/
:
solitario
- The lonesome cabin sat atop the hill, isolated from the rest of the village.
- lonesome cowboy
- lonesome prairie
- lonesome road
You go off and do that all by your lonesome, but that's they're, they're high sided litter boxes that we use for dog proofing.
- You go off and do that all by your lonesome, but that's they're, they're high sided litter boxes that we use for dog proofing.
Examples
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The old pickup looked lonesome, like an ugly wallflower standing there in the otherwise empty lot.
Fiction book (1990) -
You're too cute a girl to be spending a lonesome afternoon.
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But after that, I will cross that lonesome sea.
Fiction book (2002) -
So long as he stayed in that lonesome river, he would be all right.
Fiction book (1990) -
It was a lonesome room at the top of a house.
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A beautiful, lonesome sight.
Fiction book (1992) -
A lonesome cowboy hitching across the country like Jack Kerouac.
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Doesn't the sun look lonesome, oh Lord, Lord, Lord, on the graveyard fence?
Blog text (25) -
A favorite place for lonesome cowboy games was in a glade behind one of the farther hills on the pasture.
Fiction book (1990) -
Let's bring 'em in right now in off that long, dusty, lonesome trail... the old trail hands themselves, Dusty and Lefty.
Synonyms
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1.0
By yourself with no other people present
253
3.7
Only one person or thing not shared with others
191
4.6
Being alone and not with other people or things
176
2.7
By itself with no other people or things nearby
83
1.0
Choosing to be alone or living by oneself
78
4.2
Feeling separated from other people and having little contact
24
7.4
Tends to live alone and avoid other people
11
6.7
Feeling very unhappy and alone after a loss
9
5.3
Not having anyone to talk to or support you
1
6.7
Feeling separate from other people or different from them
1
4.8
Prefers being alone and avoids spending time with others
Alone with no one to be with you
Feeling alone and not part of a group or society
Antonyms
How Alone
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Lonesome is built from lone, meaning 'single' or 'alone', and -some, meaning 'full of', so it can mean 'single and standing apart'; think of a lone ship on the sea to see why we call a single, isolated thing 'lonesome'.