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Lonesome   /lˈoʊnsəm/   Listen
Lonesome

adjective
(compar. lonesomer; superl. lonesomest)
1.
Being the only one; single and isolated from others.  Synonyms: lone, only, sole, solitary.  "A lonesome pine" , "An only child" , "The sole heir" , "The sole example" , "A solitary instance of cowardice" , "A solitary speck in the sky"
2.
Marked by dejection from being alone.  Synonym: lonely.  "The loneliest night of the week" , "Lonesome when her husband is away" , "Spent a lonesome hour in the bar"



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"Lonesome" Quotes from Famous Books



... be lonesome," he thought. "Her father placed her in my charge, and I will protect ...
— The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; A Century Too Soon (A Story - of Bacon's Rebellion) • John R. Musick

... Idly dreaming away his days. No companions? Yes, a book Sometimes under his arm he took To read aloud to a lonesome brook. And school-boys, truant, once had heard A strange voice chanting, faint and dim— Followed the echoes, and found it him, Perched in a tree-top like a bird, Singing, clean from the highest limb; And, ...
— A Child-World • James Whitcomb Riley

... nodded, but the slight constraint that was upon him did not escape the girl. "Still, I don't go there so often now. The Range is lonesome when you ...
— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss

... see people. I haven't seen any one for six weeks except Uncle Joe," wistfully. "I wish he had come back with you—it's so lonesome." ...
— The Fighting Shepherdess • Caroline Lockhart

... was the reply; the voice deep and lonesome enough to have come from the bottom of an ...
— The Confidence-Man • Herman Melville


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