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adjective

Lonely adj. (compar. lonelier; superl. loneliest)

Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired; as, a lonely situation; a lonely cell.

Alone, or in want of company; forsaken. "To the misled and lonely traveler."

Not frequented by human beings; as, a lonely wood.

Having a feeling of depression or sadness resulting from the consciousness of being alone; lonesome. "I am very often alone. I don't mean I am lonely."

Synonyms: Solitary; lone; lonesome; retired; unfrequented; sequestered; secluded.

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Etymology of 'Lonely'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... After a while the trio went to sleep, the man on the carriage bench, the woman and child on the floor. She was what is euphemistically called a "cook" in Tonking; just another name for an arrangement so often resulting from the lonely life of Europeans among a slack-fibred dependent alien population. It is the same thing that confronts the stray visitor to the isolated tea plantations of the Assam hills, where young English lads are set down by themselves, perhaps a day's journey from the next European. What ...

— A Wayfarer in China - Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia • Elizabeth Kendall

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— The Man in the Twilight • Ridgwell Cullum

... at the foot of a line of distant hills; a wide, sheltered stoop with deep-seated rocking-chairs; these things were the key to the deeper recesses of the hearts of men who have learned to play the great game of life upon the lonely wastes of a ...

— The Heart of Unaga • Ridgwell Cullum

... moral reflection, which we find in his "Essays." "How melancholy is it to travel late upon any ambitious project on a winter's night, and observe the light of cottages, where all the unambitious people are warm and happy, or at rest in their beds." While the benighted poet, lost among the lonely hills, was meditating on "ambitious projects," the character of Wolsey arose before him; the visionary cardinal crossed his path, and busied his imagination. "Thou," exclaims ...

— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

... cities! How terrible a thing it was. Never at any time had Jim felt so lonely. The rolling wind-swept prairie had at least something to offer. In every manifestation of nature he had found a friend. The wind, and the hills, and the wild animals seemed in some queer way sterling comrades; but here—— He began to hate it. It was one huge problem to him. How did it live? ...

— Colorado Jim • George Goodchild

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