(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.
Sole
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several species of flatfishes of the genus Solea and allied genera of the family Soleidae, especially the common European species (Solea vulgaris), which is a valuable food fish.
(n.) Any one of several American flounders somewhat resembling the true sole in form or quality, as the California sole (Lepidopsetta bilineata), the long-finned sole (Glyptocephalus zachirus), and other species.
(n.) The bottom of the foot; hence, also, rarely, the foot itself.
(n.) The bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather which constitutes the bottom.
(n.) The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
(n.) The bottom of the body of a plow; -- called also slade; also, the bottom of a furrow.
(n.) The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
(n.) The bottom of an embrasure.
(n.) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
(n.) The seat or bottom of a mine; -- applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
(v. t.) To furnish with a sole; as, to sole a shoe.
(a.) Being or acting without another; single; individual; only.
(a.) Single; unmarried; as, a feme sole.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
(2) In 2012, 20% of small and medium-sized businesses were either run solely or mostly by women.
(3) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
(4) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
(5) This suggested that carcinogen-induced error incorporation during DNA synthesis was restricted solely to the treatment of a deoxynucleotide template.
(6) Tests in which the size of the landmark was altered from that used in training suggest that distance is not learned solely in terms of the apparent size of the landmark as seen from the goal.
(7) Today the physician who treats women with emotional problems during menopause cannot function solely as a psychotherapist; he must deal with both their soma and psyche.
(8) Several oilseed and legume protein products were fed to rats as the sole source of dietary protein, and in blends with cereals for the determination of protein efficiency ratio (PER) and biological availability of amino acids.
(9) In contrast, newly formed secondary myotubes are short cells which insert solely into the primary myotubes by a series of complex interdigitating folds along which adhering junctions occur.
(10) "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.
(11) Considering those portions of the molecule that can be deleted without a loss of catalytic activity, one is left with a catalytic center of approximately 130 nucleotides that is solely responsible for the molecule's activity.
(12) A brevibacterium, strain TH-4, previously isolated by aerobic enrichment on the monocyclic monoterpenoid cis-terpin hydrate as a sole carbon and energy source, was found to grow on alpha-terpineol and on a number of common sugars and organic acids.
(13) The results showed that patients with and without GOR disease cannot be separated solely on the basis of the standard manometric test, even adopting more parameters besides the traditional DOS pressure measurement.
(14) The favorable prognosis is due solely to the fact that women with an IUD have far less negative antecedents and that the EP probably occurred due to impaired ciliary action, reversible when the IUD is removed.
(15) Phosphate appears to be incorporated solely into serine residues.
(16) In the medium to long term, sole primary treatment by tamoxifen delays more definitive therapy.
(17) In the patients with aplastic anaemia the iron flux was diminished, but never eliminated, demonstrating that the exchangeable compartment was not solely erythroblastic, but included non-erythroid transferrin receptors.
(18) Suction mammaplasty can be used as a sole technique in congenital asymmetry or in post-reduction enlargement or asymmetry.
(19) The presence of grouped microcalcifications as the sole indicator of malignancy was seen in 100% (seven of seven) of the patients in the 30-39-year age group, 64% (18 of 28) in the 40-49-year age group, 37% (11 of 30) in the 50-59-year age group, 30% (seven of 23) in the 60-69-year age group, and 23% (six of 26) in the 70-85-year age group.
(20) If you and your mother are joint tenants, when she dies you will become the sole owner of the whole property even if her will says that she is leaving her share to someone else.