(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".
Solitude
Definition:
(a.) state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.
(a.) Remoteness from society; destitution of company; seclusion; -- said of places; as, the solitude of a wood.
(a.) solitary or lonely place; a desert or wilderness.
Example Sentences:
(1) She wanted it used as a winter White House – a place where a president could find solitude and rest.
(2) The only sound was the breeze whispering to the grass: splendour in solitude.
(3) Solitude becomes a way of life and social interaction a scarce commodity for many chronic schizophrenics who are in institutional settings.
(4) I yearned for solitude; most of all, I wanted to sleep alone.
(5) A '"demi-alien", he began, in his solitude, to write a novel.
(6) You won't need a guide on the Petroglyph Point or Nordenskiold Site No 16 trails, where hikers can experience solitude among the primitive paintings and ruins.
(7) 'Solitude' was a measure of the time during each day when potential sources of help were spontaneously available.
(8) The years of solitude spent pushing others towards your goal, the decision to place yourself in harm's way (as in Stachel's case), and the constant threat of failure.
(9) Most important, Carlin says, Freeman, abetted by the screenwriter, "impressively conveys the giant solitude of Mandela".
(10) Eventually this marriage gets to old age in solitude, with the bitterness of loneliness."
(11) She doesn't mind being lonely – "if you call it solitude it doesn't seem so bad" – and she takes long walks, another of her salvations.
(12) Additional research is suggested to increase the generalizability of the findings of this study and to isolate conditions related to Orem's (1985) sets of actions for maintenance of a balance between solitude and social interaction.
(13) Symbiontic psychoses (induced delusions) are marked by 'solitude by twos'--together in alienation to the environment.
(14) But it was Salinger's own war that seems to have perpetuated his adolescence, trapping him in the mind and spirit of a disaffected teen and subsequently sponsoring a deep yearning for solitude.
(15) The differences in general activity were detected after 69 and 79 days of social deprivation; the hyperactivity induced by amphetamine was greater after 79 days of isolation and the pentylenetetrazol CD50's were higher after 56, 69 and 79 days of solitude.
(16) This resulted in the isolation of provincial psychiatric hospitals, general hospital psychiatric units and community mental health programs, with little overall accountability for the services provided--three solitudes.
(17) Either you play your difference for all it is worth, or you retreat into solitude.
(18) Photograph: National Trust What do you do if you hanker after a dose of solitude somewhere scenic and remote, but can no longer heft a heavy rucksack because of a dodgy back?
(19) Distinct hypochondriac and relation delusions evolved and the feeling of solitude increased.
(20) After a standing ovation and several prizes at Sundance, this quiet little film about a very small man who gets so fed up with people's reaction to his tiny size that he decides to live in total solitude, has made its way around the world as an example of the kind of American cinema you now hardly ever see.