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lonesome
[lohn-suhm]
adjective
depressed or sad because of the lack of friends, companionship, etc.; lonely.
to feel lonesome.
attended with or causing such a state or feeling.
a lonesome evening at home.
lonely or deserted in situation; remote, desolate, or isolated.
a lonesome road.
lonesome
/ ˈəʊԲə /
adjective
another word for lonely
noun
informalon one's own
Other Word Forms
- lonesomely adverb
- lonesomeness noun
- ˈDzԱdz adverb
- ˈDzԱdzԱ noun
Idioms and Phrases
on / by one's lonesome, alone: Also by one's lane.
She went walking by her lonesome.
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
"It reminds you of Hank Williams singing that song, 'I'm so lonesome I could cry.'"
It took Ireland eight minutes to score at Murrayfield, the nerveless Sam Prendergast enjoying time and space and a penalty advantage to throw a long left-to-right pass to Calvin Nash, all on his lonesome.
Driving around after dark is a lonesome experience, the eerie consequence of what many label a “voluntary” curfew.
On one particular evening, days before Sam’s birthday — a date that looms large in the life of this lonesome duo — Amelia reads from a book she’s never seen before on the shelf.
Shy himself is movingly human — full of vim but also lonesome and afraid.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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