solitary
3
8.2
- noun
- /ˈsɑːləˌtɛri/
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- I think a couple of days in solitary on a minimal diet will give you time to think this over, Williams.
- inmates in solitary
- prisoners in solitary
- solitary for 42 years
And he's in solitary and he'll never get out.
- And he's in solitary and he'll never get out.
- That was the first verse that ever in my life struck me as having real meaning because it was my first night in solitary.
- When I was in solitary, solitary confinement is torture.
- And he told about my son being raped in solitary confinement by another young person.
- I said what you're doing with Tommy is you're, you've, you've sort of put him in solitary confinement for his views and all that sort of stuff.
- And I sat there in amazement that I could finally see the moon after so many years in solitary confinement.
- OK, people ask me what is the best thing about having been in solitary confinement in the Islamic in the Islamic Republic of Iran?
- It's a perverse form of solitary confinement to be in a room where there is another person who does not acknowledge you.
- Like even if someone in solitary confinement, shout out to Ross Albrecht, can still write letters to people, receive information, you know, read a book or something.
- Any, any hole in jail, the whole solitary.
Examples
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Those three years in Solitary were very instructive.
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You found yourself in jail, in solitary confinement for four years.
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Step off a third time, and it was a week in solitary.
Fiction book (2001) -
In the course of that five years in solitary, there was a counselor came to see me.
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Minus the two weeks in solitary he gets for this.
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The man in question is Thomas Silverstein, who has been in solitary for 28 years so far.
Blog text (21) -
There are people on trespass charges who have been sitting in federal jails just behind me in solitary since January.
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26 years of solitary I've done, and I ain't killed no one.
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After being charged with a serious crime, he spent months in solitary to reflect on his actions.
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The prison's policy allowed for solitary stays as a form of discipline for disruptive behavior.
Synonyms
172
3.7
A state of being alone and cut off from other people physically or emotionally
102
3.7
A state of being kept somewhere and not allowed to leave
80
5.9
A state of being kept in a small closed space and unable to move freely
37
7.0
Guards keep a prisoner alone and away from other prisoners as punishment or for safety
22
6.5
A state of being private and away from other people
Antonyms
Compounds
37
7.0
Guards keep a prisoner alone and away from other prisoners as punishment or for safety
- Specialized
A single wave that travels long distances without changing shape or losing energy
A small North American plant with soft white, woolly flower heads that often grows alone
- Archaic
A small songbird from eastern North America with a blue-grey head and green body that often looks for food alone
How Isolated
- Literature
6
9.0
3
8.2
- Offensive
84
6.1
- Specialized
370
3.9
Surface Forms
Etymology
Solitary comes from the Latin root solus, which means 'alone', and it is the same root as solo and sole. Used as a noun in prisons, solitary is short for 'solitary confinement' and reminds you that the person is kept 'alone' in a cell.