companionlessadj.
/kəmˈpanjənləs/, U.S. /kəmˈpænjənləs/ Having no companion; lacking companions.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [adjective]
onlyOE
alonec1175
solitarya1340
lone1377
ledelessc1400
fellowless?c1425
savage1535
neighbourless1550
private1599
discompanied1601
unattended1603
disaccompanied1605
lonelya1616
marrowless?1635
companionless1644
unneighboured1657
unaccompanied1709
unescorted1774
uncompanioned1822
comradeless1891
1644 W. Barton Bk. Psalms cii. 205 Sparrow-like companionless, On houses top I watch.
1722 A. Philips Briton v. iii. 55 She is here, a Stranger; among Men; Companionless; and full of Virgin Fears.
1798 C. Lloyd Edmund Oliver I. xxxviii. 252 She is now companionless and solitary.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. ii. 25 There she sat and sewed..as companionless as a prisoner in his dungeon.
1850 W. Wordsworth Prelude iv. 101 Companionless, No dog attending, by no staff sustained, He stood.
1967 Punch 28 June 937/1 By the end of 1966, by no stretch of poetic imagination could the moon be described as companionless.
1993 H. Jacobson Roots Schmoots ix. 205 The most melancholy get into the best cars, and speed off companionless into the LA night.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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