lonelyI've been lonely since my friends moved away.
lonesomeUSI'm feeling lonesome.
isolatedI wouldn't like living out in the country - I'd feel isolated from the rest of the world.
forlornThe characters, a flighty heiress and her forlorn suitor, are a delight.
lornHe's a lone, lorn creature.
desolateAfter the market crash, desolate financiers left the field.
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by/on your lonesome
alone:
独自地，单独地
I was justsittinghere all by my lonesome.我只是一个人坐在这里。
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not with others
aloneYou can tell me your secret - I think we're alone.
(all) on your ownI like living on my own.
on your lonesomeUKSure, you can play the game on your lonesome, but it's more fun with friends.
on your todUKAh, your family's gone and left you on your tod, have they?
unaccompaniedTo everyone's great surprise, she arrived at the ball unaccompanied.
solitaryHe was a solitary child who preferred reading a book to football.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Feeling sad and unhappy
a dog's lifeidiom
angsty
be cut upidiom
be down in the mouthidiom
be in a funkidiom
be in bitsidiom
distraught
distressed
dog
doleful
lovelorn
lovesick
low-spirited
lugubrious
lugubriously
wistfully
woe
woe is meidiom
woebegone
woeful
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Alone
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Alone,lonely, orlonesome?
Alone is an adjective and an adverb meaning that no other person is with you. When we use alone as an adjective, it never comes before the noun (predicative adjective):…
Aloneorlonely?
Alone is an adjective and an adverb meaning that no other person is with you. When we use alone as an adjective, it never comes before the noun (predicative adjective):…
Lonesome
In American English, lonesome means the same as lonely:…
Alonesomespot it was - and a bonnie spot - full of oak trees.
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There is a lady comes from time to time, quiet and without any fuss, here among the sick andlonesomevolunteers.
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One can realise howlonesomethat man is.
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She will be so sad and solonesomenow.
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During a mission with his comrades, he found a baby boy all by itslonesome.
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Alonesomebounty hunter - who quite resembles in appearance the priest - defeats a crook and finds the book again.
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She stayed here for seven years, only to return to her family each summer, which becamelonesomefor her in the school season.
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An additional guitar melody and drums enter shortly after withlonesomesinging.
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He leads an ingenious hermit life, verylonesomein the forest among the birds, and four-footed and crawling animals with which he has an affinity.
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Alonesome, quiet situation, you might say, yet he had plenty of company.
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Her music was characterized not only by her high,lonesomesinging style, but also by her provocative pro-union, feminist songs.
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He is depressed andlonesome; none of his friends are around.
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Rubayet is unassumingly quiet, reticent, shy,lonesomeand in a way scattered.
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Life in the country, particularly in the early days, was alonesomelife.
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A neighbor described him as a sad,lonesomeman.
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