unalone
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8.6
- adjective
- /ˌʌnəˈloʊn/
- Having family to celebrate the holidays with made me feel unalone during the festive season.
Examples
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There was a moment in Thomas Merton's life when he found himself in the position I have been describing, wanting to be alone with God (he had moved from a monastery to a hermitage), and yet wanting to be unalone (he had fallen in love with a young woman who was his nurse when he was in the hospital).
Academic text (1990) -
The feeling of being accessible and yet inaccessible, of being alone and yet unalone, of being like and yet unlike, brought him not to the end but to the beginning of a road.
Academic text (1990) -
... and unalone as well.
Fiction book (1995) -
God only, according to this, can make us unalone, and that is what it means to say God only can enter into that place in our hearts.
Academic text (1990) -
After the meeting, I was glad to have my friends around, feeling unalone in the crowd.
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Even in a busy city, I felt unalone because my friends were just a phone call away.
Synonyms
1
6.5
Having company and feeling close to other people
Antonyms
How Alone
Surface Forms
Morphology
unalone = alone (transparent) = un + alone
Formed by adding the negative prefix 'un-' to the adjective 'alone', yielding a direct negation that is easily understood by learners.
Etymology
Unalone is made from the prefix un- meaning 'not' and alone meaning 'by yourself', so it simply means 'not alone' — to have company or not be by yourself.