(superl.) Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired; as, a lonely situation; a lonely cell.
(superl.) Alone, or in want of company; forsaken.
(superl.) Not frequented by human beings; as, a lonely wood.
(superl.) Having a feeling of depression or sadness resulting from the consciousness of being alone; lonesome.
Example Sentences:
(1) For his lone, perilous journey that defied the US occupation authorities, Burchett was pilloried, not least by his embedded colleagues.
(2) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
(3) "It's a very open question as to whether this will come," said a diplomat in Brussels, adding that Cameron could find himself in the lonely position of being the sole national leader urging a renegotiation.
(4) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
(5) Committing to ploughing a lone furrow without international agreement will damage our economy for little or no environmental benefit.
(6) McVeigh may have thought of himself as a lone wolf, but he was not one.
(7) Striking a completely different note, Kelly Smith, a Texan who lives in Sedgefield, draped herself in the US flag and made a lone stand in support of her president.
(8) The opiates undergo binding to their amine-binding sites via the lone electron pair on nitrogen.
(9) Peter Travers, film critic at Rolling Stone, offered a simpler explanation: "Why is The Lone Ranger such a huge flop at the box office?"
(10) Unsurprisingly, one of the three lonely references at the end of O'Reilly's essay is to a 2012 speech entitled " Regulation: Looking Backward, Looking Forward" by Cass Sunstein , the prominent American legal scholar who is the chief theorist of the nudging state.
(11) In a sneak preview of the findings, Howard Reed of Landman Economics, who was commissioned to do the work, told a meeting this week that "most of the gain" from raising the income tax allowance goes to "families who aren't very poor in the first place", and instead increasing tax credits for working low-income families was the "best targeted way of encouraging work among lone parents and workless couples".
(12) Vauxhall Tower Like a cigarette stubbed out by the Thames, the Vauxhall's lonely stump looks cast adrift, a piece of Pudong that's lost its way.
(13) The South Korean sat on Fifa’s executive committee for 17 years until 2011 but claims he was a lone voice of criticism against Blatter for much of that time.
(14) At the time, it was a lone moment of respite for the Americans in what had become an unrelenting assault.
(15) Photograph: Fabio De Paola Thomas Howarth: student, Derby "There's this perception that you've got to be furiously depressed and lonely to listen to the Smiths," says Thomas Howarth, 18, from Derby.
(16) Patients with chronic lone atrial fibrillation (LAF) were treated with quinidine according to a special schedule to establish sinus rhythm and prevent recurrences.
(17) T he image of the lone wolf who splits from the pack has been a staple of popular culture since the 19th century, cropping up in stories about empire and exploration from British India to the wild west.
(18) I wasn't prepared for Madiba (his clan name) coming into my life, but now we make sure we spend time with each other because we were so lonely before.
(19) She refers to the Greens’ Caroline Lucas as a more recent example of a lone MP seen to be making a difference.
(20) According to the ONS, "comparing lone parents and couple households, the latter have a much lower chance of being a workless household".
Lonesome
Definition:
(superl.) Secluded from society; not frequented by human beings; solitary.
(superl.) Conscious of, and somewhat depressed by, solitude; as, to feel lonesome.
Example Sentences:
(1) On our approach march to K2 base camp, we crossed this wild, beautiful, lonesome and very powerful landscape.
(2) Along with Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, he brought the music of the dirt farms, the sweat shops and the lonesome highways into America's – and later the world's – living room.
(3) Not least against opponents who did seem vulnerable when Sunderland committed Adnan Januzaj and Steven Pienaar forward in support of the rather lonesome Jermain Defoe, who had a total of 13 touches all game.
(4) His rides across Tehran carry him from penthouse to pavement, from the miserable teenage soldiers staking out a decadent party to the lonesome playboy adrift in his parents' apartment.
(5) His artwork for the band also included the lonesome-looking cow on the cover of Atom Heart Mother, the burning businessman on the sleeve of Wish You Were Here, and the giant pig flying over Battersea power station on the cover of Animals.
(6) As you age, your health and mobility may become impaired, so having the opportunity and the finances to get online makes life less lonesome.
(7) ITV intrigue: A surprising number of you have written to ask why Clive Tylsdley is all on his lonesome in the gantry tonight.
(8) He drew on his Cascades experiences in Dharma Bums , Lonesome Traveler and Desolation Angels , in which he wrote: “Those lazy afternoons, when I used to sit, or lie down, on Desolation Peak, sometimes on the alpine grass, hundreds of miles of snow-covered rock all around…” Those views look different today.
(9) Sometimes, Oldham looked like a callow teenager; at others, wild and woolly like a lonesome pilgrim.
(10) Over on a makeshift stage, Coz Fontenot sits stoically with his violin, singing in that high, lonesome, wonderfully timeless voice.
(11) The situation of the tumour patients is characterised by a feeling of lonesomeness and isolation within their social environment.
(12) BBC Worldwide has signed a first-look deal with Douglas's fledgling independent production company, Lonesome Pine, which she founded with Catherine Tate Show scriptwriter Aschlin Ditta.
(13) Fang Fang and I walked past old couples waltzing to Are You Lonesome Tonight?, weaved between the hawkers selling knock-off Louis Vuitton and Rolex, and past the shops selling the real things, and under a giant screen showing films of pandas and paddy fields.
(14) The company said highlights in 2016 included the rollout of a Zara range designed to mark the release of the Rolling Stones’ new album, Blue & Lonesome, and the Join Life collection, made with sustainable fabrics.
(15) They are followed by drug and alcohol addicts, by elderly and lonesome people, by the group of patients who threaten with suicide or who announce it, and finally as a last risk group, by those people who have failed at a first attempt.
(16) The vans I see day after day – busy delivering vegetables next door, groceries across the road, bringing books, clothes and fridges at the push of a button – are not lifelines but the harbingers of a colder, more lonesome world.
(17) It has graced the western for 25 years now, beginning with the epic Lonesome Dove and reappearing in The Missing , a pursuit western by Ron Howard; in the Coens’ neo-noir western No Country For Old Men; and in his own marvellous and strange directorial debut, set in the same brutal Tex-Mex borderlands, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada .
(18) So says Derek Duffy - is that when you're on your lonesome ownsome?
(19) This moment, to me, showed defeat in its most bitter, most lonesome form.
(20) This pitch-black affair starred Philip Seymour Hoffman as a lonesome schlub who makes nuisance phone-calls and Jon Lovitz as an employee whose suicide goes largely unnoticed by his indifferent co-workers.