(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".
Unfrequented
Definition:
(a.) Rarely visited; seldom or never resorted to by human beings; as, an unfrequented place or forest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Complications such as obliteration were unfrequent.
(2) Analysis of the unfrequent delta-TCS-1+ clones which express surface CD8 molecules revealed that the "heavy" 55 kDa form of (C gamma 2-encoded) gamma chain is selectively expressed by this cell type.
(3) In France, RS remains unfrequent although no precise epidemiological data are available.
(4) In some patients with parkinsonism, we have found and, often, cured by L-DOPA: 1) An unfrequent symptomatology (oculomotor, sensory, syncinesias, "Babinski" sign), not included in the classic rating scales.
(5) Breast localisation of multiple myeloma is quite unfrequent.
(6) Compared with some beauty spots, this remains a relatively unfrequented corner of Britain As we cycle down river, the Torridge opens to wide mudflats, pock-marked with the footprints of wading birds.
(7) Fathers transmitted HBV unfrequently to their offsprings.
(8) Most severe scoliosis and kyphoscoliosis are not unfrequent in European countries.
(9) The metastatic tumours of the large intestine are not unfrequent.
(10) The radiographic finding with reticulogranular image was unfrequent.
(11) This case is compared with 20 previously published observations of PML associated with AIDS and appears rather unusual due to the association of unfrequent clinical peculiarities: previous, probably coincidental, retrobulbar optic neuritis, female patient, lack of risk factor and clinical symptoms of AIDS.
(12) Positive cytological examination of sputum are unfrequent.
(13) Although its indications are relatively unfrequent, vitrectomy may be justified in certain types of uveitis.
(14) The causes of this hypertension are ill-defined, but an autoimmune origin has often been envisaged since primary pulmonary arterial hypertension is not unfrequently associated with connective tissue diseases.
(15) Angiograms are not always easily interpreted, and the modern imaging techniques (ultrasound, computed tomography, and above all MRI) can best lead to the preoperative diagnosis, although this lesion is unfrequent.
(16) Mason's gastric and gastroplastic techniques is till now unfrequently used.
(17) Photograph: Alamy Compared with some beauty spots, this remains a relatively unfrequented corner of Britain.
(18) Multicentric gliomas are unfrequently reported in the literature, and very often rise diagnostic problems with other multiple lesions of the Central Nervous System, either of neoplastic nature or not.
(19) Scd spermatids were the cells most frequently observed and the spermatogonia the most unfrequently seen.
(20) Diagnostic and therapeutical difficulties in emergency situations, especially the not unfrequent late complications and the considerable danger of suicidal actions require in general the immediate hospitalization.