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/lˈoʊnsəm/ Listen

adjective

Lonesome adj. (compar. lonesomer; superl. lonesomest)

Secluded from society; not frequented by human beings; solitary. "Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread."

Conscious of, and somewhat depressed by, solitude; as, to feel lonesome.

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Etymology of 'Lonesome'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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