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adjective

Lonely adj. (compar. lonelier; superl. loneliest)

Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired; as, a lonely situation; a lonely cell.

Alone, or in want of company; forsaken. "To the misled and lonely traveler."

Not frequented by human beings; as, a lonely wood.

Having a feeling of depression or sadness resulting from the consciousness of being alone; lonesome. "I am very often alone. I don't mean I am lonely."

Synonyms: Solitary; lone; lonesome; retired; unfrequented; sequestered; secluded.

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"Lonely" Quotes from Famous Books

... a laughing son, and speak of him as bright, And you who love a little girl who comes to you at night With smiling eyes, with dancing feet, with honors from her school, Turn to that lonely little boy who thinks he is a fool, And take him kindly by the hand, the dullest in his class, He is the one who most needs love, the boy who ...

— Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two • Various

... Roger Matherson; and it was like a blow to me now to hear of his death. I wondered what the little girl would be like; and my heart went out to her in her loneliness. Scarcely realizing it, I was lonely also. ...

— When Wilderness Was King - A Tale of the Illinois Country • Randall Parrish

... "loneliness weighed on him." He was brought back, but could not sustain the journey farther than Southampton. There the members of the beforementioned club travelled from London to see him—two at a time—that he might be less lonely—and for the unwearying solicitude of his friend and agent, Mr. Hingston, and to the kindly sympathy of the United States Consul at Southampton, Charles Browne's best and dearest friends had cause to be grateful. ...

— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 1 • Charles Farrar Browne

... "Because I'm a lonely soul doth seek a comrade. Because the moment I clapped eyes on you I felt drawn to ye, and seeing the scars on your wrist, knew 'em for shackle-marks—and 'twas a bond ...

— Black Bartlemy's Treasure • Jeffrey Farnol

... full oft The chase of Fortune; now she hath o'ertaken My spirit where it cannot turn at bay,— Sick, poor, and lonely. ...

— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron

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