单词 | unlonely |
释义 | unlonelyadj.n. Not lonely. Also as n. (with the and plural agreement): people who are not lonely, considered collectively. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [adjective] > not lonely unlonely1817 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [noun] > person > who are not lonely unlonely1817 1817 Portico 4 152 My social thoughts, unlonely, were with thee. 1885 Manch. Weekly Times 19 Sept. (Suppl.) 2/4 Jasper got him at last on the river side in a not unlonely spot. 1915 Fra Feb. 150/2 (heading) The Unlonely. 1952 J. Steinbeck East of Eden 396 The poison of loneliness and the gnawing envy of the unlonely. 1967 H. W. Sutherland Magnie iv. 63 A man should sleep with his wife in winter. It's warm—unlonely. 1997 Washington Post (Nexis) 7 Apr. d1 He was lonely in a way others crave to be, thinking of cowboys and truck drivers. Lonely in a way that the unlonely can confuse with independence instead of the prison that it is. 2001 N. Weinstock As long as she needs Me 10 He would enlist in the ranks of the chronically lonely, and thus unlonely; embrace his solitude and thus cease to feel it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1817 |
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