lonelyadj.

Brit.

/ˈləʊnli/, U.S.

/ˈloʊnli/

Etymology: < lone adj. + -ly suffix¹.

a. Of persons, etc., their actions, condition, etc.: Having no companionship or society; unaccompanied, solitary, lone.

ΘΚΠ

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

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. i. 31 I go alone Like to a lonely Dragon, that his Fenne Makes fear'd, and talk'd of more then seene.

1637 J. Milton Comus 8 To give due light To the misled, and lonely Travailer.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 290 Thy going is not lonely, with thee goes Thy Husband.

1708 N. Rowe Royal Convert iii. i. 27 When, fairest Princess, you avoid our Court And lonely thus from the full Pomp retire.

1751 T. Gray Elegy xxiv. 10 If chance, by lonely Contemplation led.

1816 C. Wolfe Burial Sir J. Moore 18 As we hollow'd his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow.

1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) iii. 176 Jacob, as he wandered on his lonely exile from Beersheba to Bethel.

1859 W. Collins Queen of Hearts I. 1 We were three quiet, lonely old men.

1901 Spectator 23 Feb. 270/2 The lonely seer has his place in the vast and complex order of things, whether as philosopher or saint.

b. Colloquial or dialect phrase on one's lonely(-o): on one's own; alone. Cf. lone adj. 6b (probably influenced by only).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > condition of being alone > [adverb] > by oneself

by oneself (himself, themselves, etc.)eOE

myself one (also alone)a1300

of oneselfc1450

sole1450

post alone1478

solely1495

high-lone1533

myselfc1540

lone1613

solus cum solo1742

on one's ownio1908

on one's Pat Malone1908

on one's lonely(-o)1919

on one's ownsome1921

on one's jack1931

on one's tod1934

1919 D. H. Lawrence England, my England (1922) 61 Oh, I'm going home by myself to-night—all on my lonely-O.

1924 ‘K. Mansfield’ Something Childish 61 So you're on your lonely, missus?

a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) v. 594 A child was to be given a lump of soft clay and told to express himself, presumably in the pious hope that he might model a Tanagra figure or a Donatello plaque, all on his little lonely-o.

2. poetic. Of things: Isolated, standing apart; = lone adj. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > condition of being alone > [adjective] > isolated

solec1407

lonely1645

lone1668

isolated1763

apart1786

isolate1819

shut-out1853

disconnected1919

1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 40 Or let my Lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in som high lonely Towr.

1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Cock & Fox in Fables 223 Deep in a Cell her Cottage lonely stood.

1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III lxv. 37 By a lone wall a lonelier column rears A gray and grief-worn aspect of old days.

1866 M. Arnold Thyrsis xx, in Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 453 That lonely Tree against the western sky.

3. Of localities: Unfrequented by men; desolate.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [adjective] > unfrequented

solitaryc1374

solein1390

insolentc1420

dern1488

uncoutha1542

unvisited1548

unhaunted1568

wasteful1573

unfrequented1594

untraded1596

sole1598

frequentlessa1607

unfrequenting1609

unrepaired to1615

unfrequent1618

lonely1645

lonesome1647

infrequented1675

lone1712

lonelyish1900

1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xx, in Poems 9 The lonely mountains o're, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. ix. vii. 368 Being arrived in this lonely Place, where it was very improbable he should meet with any Interruption.

1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere vii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 49 This soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 30 An isle..Rich, but the loneliest in a lonely sea.

1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. viii. 231 A lonely spot by the river Charenton.

a. Dejected because of want of company or society; sad at the thought that one is alone; having a feeling of solitariness.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > caused by solitude

lonesome1647

lonely1811

lonea1839

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [adjective] > feeling lonely

lonesome1647

lonely1811

lonea1839

1811 Ld. Byron One Struggle More iii Though pleasure fires the maddening soul, The heart—the heart is lonely still!

1840 R. H. Barham Look at Clock in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 57 Mr. Pryce, Mrs. Winifred Pryce being dead, Felt lonely, and moped.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. vi. 95 I wandered..among the forms and tables and laughing groups without a companion, yet not feeling lonely.

1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 179 ‘No doubt they are dead’, she thought, and felt the sadder and the lonelier for the thought.

b. poetic. Imparting a feeling of loneliness; dreary.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > [adjective] > causing loneliness

lonesome1799

lonely1813

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [adjective] > feeling lonely > causing feeling of loneliness

lonesome1800

lonely1813

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab ix. 115 A heap of crumbling ruins stood, and threw Year after year their stones upon the field, Wakening a lonely echo.

1863 T. Woolner My Beautiful Lady 22 A lonely wind sighed up the pines.

†5. (? adv.) ? Alone, without counting anything else. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > condition of being alone > [adverb] > without reference to anything else

nakedlya1425

absolutelyc1443

per se1574

lonely1664

an sich1846

1664 in H. Dircks Life 2nd Marquis Worcester (1865) xviii. 329 And above 40 others [sc. horses] lonely worth £50 a horse.

Compounds

C1.

ΚΠ

1882 H. de Windt On Equator 64 Sarikei, a lonely-looking place.

C2.

lonely-heart n. a sentimental name for a friendless person.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] > lack of friends > person

relict1584

derelict1728

destitute1737

lonely-heart1931

1931 R. Campbell Georgiad i. 15 More lonely hearts are linked by the Reviews Than by the ‘Link’ or ‘Matrimonial News’.

1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock i. i. 9 Come on over here, lonely heart.

1959 ‘N. Blake’ Widow's Cruise 29 He might just be the fulsome, pathetic lonely-heart he appeared to be.

1959 T. Griffith Waist-high Culture (1960) ii. 25 With a fellow lonely-heart,..he would drive out to remote lakes.

lonely-hearted adj. (and absol.)

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [adjective] > friendless

friendlessOE

unfriendeda1535

unbefriended1628

lonely-hearted1863

1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies vi, in Macmillan's Mag. Jan. 211/2 He was so lonely-hearted, he thought that rough kissing was better than none.

1904 W. de la Mare Henry Brocken 200 Criseyde..the lonely-hearted.

Lonelyhearts n. (also Miss Lonelyhearts) a journalist who gives advice in a newspaper or magazine to people who are lonely or in difficulties; also transferred and attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > sentimental or advice writer

sob sister1912

Lonelyhearts1933

Miss Lonelyhearts1933

agony aunt1974

1933 ‘N. West’ (title) Miss Lonelyhearts.

1933 ‘N. West’ Miss Lonelyhearts 14 Miss Lonelyhearts tells the story of a reporter,..detailed to write an agony column and answer daily the letters desperate with human misery addressed to his paper.

1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions iii. ii. 749 Down the bar, the Big Unshaven Man was offered a job writing the lonely-hearts column for a newspaper in Buffalo.

1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes i. iii. 59 You're so busy being Miss Lonelyhearts to your public.

1958 M. Dickens Man Overboard ii. 31 Rose's weekly show was a toothsome mixture of soap opera and a Lonely-hearts column.

1959 Listener 28 May 924/2 The office of Connie, the girl who writes the ‘Lonely Hearts’ column.

1975 Times 1 Mar. 8/4 Music Through Midnight..the BBC's Miss Lonelyhearts spot. The other two nights there is Contact, a radio advice and counselling column.

Derivatives

ˈlonelyish adj. somewhat lonely.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [adjective] > unfrequented

solitaryc1374

solein1390

insolentc1420

dern1488

uncoutha1542

unvisited1548

unhaunted1568

wasteful1573

unfrequented1594

untraded1596

sole1598

frequentlessa1607

unfrequenting1609

unrepaired to1615

unfrequent1618

lonely1645

lonesome1647

infrequented1675

lone1712

lonelyish1900

1900 A. W. Pinero Gay Ld. Quex ii. 75 Grotto? dark I suppose, and lonelyish?

Draft additions 1997

Also applied, frequently by hypallage, to places in which feelings of loneliness are experienced. Cf. sense 2 above.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [adjective] > where feeling of loneliness are experienced

lonely1635

1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iv. xii. 230 At length... She re-betakes her to her lonely Bed.

1684 J. Dryden Prol. to Southerne's Disappointm. 46 He hires some lonely room, love's fruits to gather.

1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph II. 101 She has no business to go into her own lonely house again; it would be enough to kill her.

1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 9 The surgy murmurs of the lonely sea.

1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 133 A maiden sat in her lonely bower, Sadly and lowly singing.

1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes ix. 233 My house is lonely. I, my old housekeeper, and my bees have the estate all to ourselves.

1982 J. Simms Unsolicited Gift viii. 149 Offstage, the soloist waited in her lonely dressing room.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	lonely
释义	lonelyadj. Brit. /ˈləʊnli/, U.S. /ˈloʊnli/ Etymology: < lone adj. + -ly suffix¹. 1. a. Of persons, etc., their actions, condition, etc.: Having no companionship or society; unaccompanied, solitary, lone. ΘΚΠ 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 a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. i. 31 I go alone Like to a lonely Dragon, that his Fenne Makes fear'd, and talk'd of more then seene. View more context for this quotation 1637 J. Milton Comus 8 To give due light To the misled, and lonely Travailer. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 290 Thy going is not lonely, with thee goes Thy Husband. View more context for this quotation 1708 N. Rowe Royal Convert iii. i. 27 When, fairest Princess, you avoid our Court And lonely thus from the full Pomp retire. 1751 T. Gray Elegy xxiv. 10 If chance, by lonely Contemplation led. 1816 C. Wolfe Burial Sir J. Moore 18 As we hollow'd his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) iii. 176 Jacob, as he wandered on his lonely exile from Beersheba to Bethel. 1859 W. Collins Queen of Hearts I. 1 We were three quiet, lonely old men. 1901 Spectator 23 Feb. 270/2 The lonely seer has his place in the vast and complex order of things, whether as philosopher or saint. b. Colloquial or dialect phrase on one's lonely(-o): on one's own; alone. Cf. lone adj. 6b (probably influenced by only). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > condition of being alone > [adverb] > by oneself by oneself (himself, themselves, etc.)eOE myself one (also alone)a1300 of oneselfc1450 sole1450 post alone1478 solely1495 high-lone1533 myselfc1540 lone1613 solus cum solo1742 on one's ownio1908 on one's Pat Malone1908 on one's lonely(-o)1919 on one's ownsome1921 on one's jack1931 on one's tod1934 1919 D. H. Lawrence England, my England (1922) 61 Oh, I'm going home by myself to-night—all on my lonely-O. 1924 ‘K. Mansfield’ Something Childish 61 So you're on your lonely, missus? a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) v. 594 A child was to be given a lump of soft clay and told to express himself, presumably in the pious hope that he might model a Tanagra figure or a Donatello plaque, all on his little lonely-o. 2. poetic. Of things: Isolated, standing apart; = lone adj. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > condition of being alone > [adjective] > isolated solec1407 lonely1645 lone1668 isolated1763 apart1786 isolate1819 shut-out1853 disconnected1919 1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 40 Or let my Lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in som high lonely Towr. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Cock & Fox in Fables 223 Deep in a Cell her Cottage lonely stood. 1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III lxv. 37 By a lone wall a lonelier column rears A gray and grief-worn aspect of old days. 1866 M. Arnold Thyrsis xx, in Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 453 That lonely Tree against the western sky. 3. Of localities: Unfrequented by men; desolate. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [adjective] > unfrequented solitaryc1374 solein1390 insolentc1420 dern1488 uncoutha1542 unvisited1548 unhaunted1568 wasteful1573 unfrequented1594 untraded1596 sole1598 frequentlessa1607 unfrequenting1609 unrepaired to1615 unfrequent1618 lonely1645 lonesome1647 infrequented1675 lone1712 lonelyish1900 1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xx, in Poems 9 The lonely mountains o're, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. ix. vii. 368 Being arrived in this lonely Place, where it was very improbable he should meet with any Interruption. View more context for this quotation 1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere vii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 49 This soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 30 An isle..Rich, but the loneliest in a lonely sea. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. viii. 231 A lonely spot by the river Charenton. 4. a. Dejected because of want of company or society; sad at the thought that one is alone; having a feeling of solitariness. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > caused by solitude lonesome1647 lonely1811 lonea1839 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [adjective] > feeling lonely lonesome1647 lonely1811 lonea1839 1811 Ld. Byron One Struggle More iii Though pleasure fires the maddening soul, The heart—the heart is lonely still! 1840 R. H. Barham Look at Clock in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 57 Mr. Pryce, Mrs. Winifred Pryce being dead, Felt lonely, and moped. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. vi. 95 I wandered..among the forms and tables and laughing groups without a companion, yet not feeling lonely. 1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 179 ‘No doubt they are dead’, she thought, and felt the sadder and the lonelier for the thought. b. poetic. Imparting a feeling of loneliness; dreary. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > [adjective] > causing loneliness lonesome1799 lonely1813 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [adjective] > feeling lonely > causing feeling of loneliness lonesome1800 lonely1813 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab ix. 115 A heap of crumbling ruins stood, and threw Year after year their stones upon the field, Wakening a lonely echo. 1863 T. Woolner My Beautiful Lady 22 A lonely wind sighed up the pines. †5. (? adv.) ? Alone, without counting anything else. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > condition of being alone > [adverb] > without reference to anything else nakedlya1425 absolutelyc1443 per se1574 lonely1664 an sich1846 1664 in H. Dircks Life 2nd Marquis Worcester (1865) xviii. 329 And above 40 others [sc. horses] lonely worth £50 a horse. Compounds C1. ΚΠ 1882 H. de Windt On Equator 64 Sarikei, a lonely-looking place. C2. lonely-heart n. a sentimental name for a friendless person. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] > lack of friends > person relict1584 derelict1728 destitute1737 lonely-heart1931 1931 R. Campbell Georgiad i. 15 More lonely hearts are linked by the Reviews Than by the ‘Link’ or ‘Matrimonial News’. 1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock i. i. 9 Come on over here, lonely heart. 1959 ‘N. Blake’ Widow's Cruise 29 He might just be the fulsome, pathetic lonely-heart he appeared to be. 1959 T. Griffith Waist-high Culture (1960) ii. 25 With a fellow lonely-heart,..he would drive out to remote lakes. lonely-hearted adj. (and absol.) ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [adjective] > friendless friendlessOE unfriendeda1535 unbefriended1628 lonely-hearted1863 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies vi, in Macmillan's Mag. Jan. 211/2 He was so lonely-hearted, he thought that rough kissing was better than none. 1904 W. de la Mare Henry Brocken 200 Criseyde..the lonely-hearted. Lonelyhearts n. (also Miss Lonelyhearts) a journalist who gives advice in a newspaper or magazine to people who are lonely or in difficulties; also transferred and attributive. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > sentimental or advice writer sob sister1912 Lonelyhearts1933 Miss Lonelyhearts1933 agony aunt1974 1933 ‘N. West’ (title) Miss Lonelyhearts. 1933 ‘N. West’ Miss Lonelyhearts 14 Miss Lonelyhearts tells the story of a reporter,..detailed to write an agony column and answer daily the letters desperate with human misery addressed to his paper. 1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions iii. ii. 749 Down the bar, the Big Unshaven Man was offered a job writing the lonely-hearts column for a newspaper in Buffalo. 1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes i. iii. 59 You're so busy being Miss Lonelyhearts to your public. 1958 M. Dickens Man Overboard ii. 31 Rose's weekly show was a toothsome mixture of soap opera and a Lonely-hearts column. 1959 Listener 28 May 924/2 The office of Connie, the girl who writes the ‘Lonely Hearts’ column. 1975 Times 1 Mar. 8/4 Music Through Midnight..the BBC's Miss Lonelyhearts spot. The other two nights there is Contact, a radio advice and counselling column. Derivatives ˈlonelyish adj. somewhat lonely. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [adjective] > unfrequented solitaryc1374 solein1390 insolentc1420 dern1488 uncoutha1542 unvisited1548 unhaunted1568 wasteful1573 unfrequented1594 untraded1596 sole1598 frequentlessa1607 unfrequenting1609 unrepaired to1615 unfrequent1618 lonely1645 lonesome1647 infrequented1675 lone1712 lonelyish1900 1900 A. W. Pinero Gay Ld. Quex ii. 75 Grotto? dark I suppose, and lonelyish? Draft additions 1997 Also applied, frequently by hypallage, to places in which feelings of loneliness are experienced. Cf. sense 2 above. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [adjective] > where feeling of loneliness are experienced lonely1635 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iv. xii. 230 At length... She re-betakes her to her lonely Bed. 1684 J. Dryden Prol. to Southerne's Disappointm. 46 He hires some lonely room, love's fruits to gather. 1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph II. 101 She has no business to go into her own lonely house again; it would be enough to kill her. 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 9 The surgy murmurs of the lonely sea. 1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 133 A maiden sat in her lonely bower, Sadly and lowly singing. 1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes ix. 233 My house is lonely. I, my old housekeeper, and my bees have the estate all to ourselves. 1982 J. Simms Unsolicited Gift viii. 149 Offstage, the soloist waited in her lonely dressing room. 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