What's the difference between lonesome and longsome?
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.