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Definition of lonely:
Synonyms:
drear, solo, wretched, happy, dark, desolate, morose, gray, back, depressive, black, funereal, unwanted, estranged, sole, away, withdrawn, chill, nongregarious, apart, tenebrific, homeless, elegiac, full, tenebrous, disconsolate, lugubrious, somber, dejected, dire, lone, unsocial, alone, unfrequented, homesick, friendless, bereft, Cimmerian, companionless, cheerless, saturnine, removed, sunless, unattended, near, sepulchral, adrift, only, unaccessible, single, obscure, outermost, cold, lorn, glum, depressing, solemn, remote, murky, include, Godforsaken, unaccompanied, plutonian, insular, empty, inaccessible, far, lonesome, out-of-the-way, dreich, sullen, outlying, cloudy, nonsocial, morbid, rejected, darkening, distant, solitary, comfortless.
- desolate (part of speech: adjective)
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secluded (part of speech: adjective)
- cordoned,
- isolated,
- boycott,
- blacklisted,
- extradited,
- alone,
- eliminated,
- cloistered,
- ejected,
- exiled,
- separated,
- maverick,
- reclusive,
- confined,
- disbarred,
- deported,
- secluded,
- closeted,
- sequestered,
- outcast,
- hermitic,
- xenophobic,
- blackballed,
- banished,
- antisocial,
- misanthropic,
- extirpated,
- anonymous,
- solitary,
- detached,
- alienated,
- ostracized,
- excluded,
- expatriated,
- excommunicated,
- segregated,
- aloof
Usage examples:
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It is true that she had been more or less lonely all her life, but this she had taken as a matter of course.
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Sometimes her eyes filled with tears, as her heart went out to the lonely battle- field where she thought him lying.
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But I'm lonely, Jonas, lonely beyond words, and all the greatness in the world, Jonas, can't fill an empty heart.