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Definition of solitary in English: solitaryadjective ˈsɒlɪt(ə)riˈsɑləˌtɛri 1Done or existing alone. I live a pretty solitary life tigers are essentially solitary Example sentencesExamples - Electronic musicians tend to be a solitary bunch and like to work alone in home studios.
- I was a solitary boy, shy and withdrawn, who preferred to be left alone to read.
- This project is a sculptural work that stemmed from my interest in sci-fi, technology, and the impulse for relaxation or solitary meditation.
- A mate who doesn't need your help may prove aloof and solitary.
- The beginning of the book describes his mostly solitary existence, the noises and sights of the press, and it's beautifully personal and focused.
- I think most people in witchcraft or paganism practise in a solitary way,’ she said.
- A solitary bad person sitting alone, harbouring genocidal thoughts, and wishing he ruled the world is not a problem unless he lives next to us in the trailer park.
- Another legend of Taoism said Zhao Gongming originally came from Zhongnan Mountain and lived a remote and solitary life to practise his skills.
- ‘That one over there,’ he said, nodding at a solitary figure in the distance which tripped and stumbled along the edge of the main road.
- Shrek himself (voiced by Mike Myers) is an unpleasant, solitary ogre who lives alone in a swamp.
- Unlikely - I've always been rather a solitary type, enjoying my own company and taking holidays alone.
- His existence is solitary (because his pursuits go unrecognised/unvalued) and (in every sense) misguided.
- You describe yourself as an isolated, solitary kid, and then you moved into writing, which is often a solitary profession.
- And so I think that there really are many forms of courage, although the one that I think most of us respond to is the solitary figure who really does risk it all.
- It also sanctifies the idea of the reclusive, solitary genius at the expense of the artist who engages with society and the world at large.
- Gone are my constant internet access, my masses of free alone time, my lengthy solitary lunches.
- From this encounter, Paley assures us, our solitary walker could be sure of one thing: a man - a thinking being - has been this way.
- And yet-such is the naïve openness of one's solitary thoughts it took only a little change of light for me to see the matter differently.
- I dined in solitary state, all alone in the castle's gilt-and-blue dining hall.
- But l must do them alone, and lately I cannot be solitary.
Synonyms lonely, companionless, unaccompanied, by oneself/itself, on one's/its own, (all) alone, friendless antisocial, unsociable, withdrawn, reclusive, cloistered, introverted, hermitic North American lonesome - 1.1 (of a place) secluded or isolated.
Example sentencesExamples - Christmas Island is remote and solitary, and its gentle beauty can change within seconds when the north-westerly monsoons lash the island.
- I was so wrapped up in confusion and suspicion that I forgot to wonder why Jacquiline would want me to meet her privately in a solitary room.
- With a scoff, she turned and headed back into her solitary fortress… but those icy green eyes still haunted the shadowy corners of her mind.
- The solitary field is often stocked with brown Welsh mountain sheep.
- Only the lights of a solitary highway showed the earth leaping ever closer.
- It's a rugged, wild, solitary place with phenomenal tides and massive seas.
- In this dark solitary place, married to this shy, watchful man, her cheerfulness was a bubble-bath in a blizzard.
- The third door to your right leads into an old solitary room.
- So he took to caves and solitary places for severe penance and meditation.
- And from this solitary passageway, the Demon Prince Dearth, along with a number of followers, entered on horseback.
- They began an anxious search, and eventually they found him in the solitary place where He had gone to pray.
- What I wanted most was to be in the same position, and not to see the future as a solitary road.
- Calm and motionless, wholly focused on the surveillance of those below, the two men watched from their solitary position of concealment.
- So in order to avoid the police and stares of the public, he kept to the solitary alleys.
- I still find this extremely disconcerting so I went in search of a solitary place to relax.
- In 1926, he withdrew himself in to a solitary room and cut himself from the outer world.
- Every moment of my life instead of feeling happy, I wanted to run into a solitary room and just cry and cry and cry.
- People sometimes have the feeling that by going to a solitary place where the environment is quiet, they will experience peace and happiness.
- Ben left his horse tethered to the low-hanging branches of a slender pine and walked the short distance to the solitary grave.
- His nights and days were spent in solitary places where silence reigned supreme.
Synonyms isolated, remote, out of the way, outlying, off the beaten track, in the depths of …, hard to find, lonely, in the back of beyond, in the hinterlands, off the map, in the middle of nowhere, godforsaken, obscure, inaccessible, cut-off, tucked away, unreachable faraway, far-flung secluded, hidden, concealed, private, unfrequented, unvisited, undisturbed, sequestered, desolate North American in the backwoods, lonesome South African in the backveld, in the platteland Australian/New Zealand in the backblocks, in the booay informal unget-at-able, in the sticks North American informal jerkwater, in the tall timbers, in the boondocks Australian/New Zealand informal Barcoo, beyond the black stump literary lone archaic unapproachable - 1.2 (of a bird, mammal, or insect) living alone or in pairs, especially in contrast to related social forms.
Example sentencesExamples - While a few hydrozoans, such as Hydra, are solitary polyps, most live in colonies made up of anywhere from a few to thousands of individual polyps.
- All previous reports of orchid pollination through pseudocopulation involve solitary wasps or bees.
- Masonry or mortar bees are referred to as solitary bees, a class that also includes mining and carpenter bees.
- Other faunal elements include colonial and solitary corals, encrusting bryozoans, stromatoporoids, and rare brachiopods.
- However, little is known about costs of parental investment in insects, particularly in solitary as well as social aculeate Hymenoptera.
- 1.3 (of a flower or other part) borne singly.
each spider-like bloom is solitary Example sentencesExamples - The capitula were small, in lax panicles or, rarely, solitary.
- All plants of O. parryi var. parryi sampled were solitary and all plants were shorter than one meter.
- Petioles of huge solitary leaves of mature plants of Amorphophallus resemble tree trunks supporting an umbrella-like crown.
- Pelliciera has solitary flowers that are accompanied by two large coloured prophylls.
- The solitary flowers are borne on long, wiry pedicels.
2attributive, often with negative Single; only. we have not a solitary shred of evidence to go on Example sentencesExamples - Everything is in my book, like every single solitary thing that has happened to me in my life, I put out there.
- Instead, they occupy solitary locations within the genome.
- The United States struck back to restrict Ian Thorpe and Australia to one solitary silver medal on day four of the Olympics.
- Laid out before you, you have 73 different types of fruit - a succulent, juicy example of every variety you can think of - but not one single, solitary apple.
- When I'm out running on my lunch hour, not once have I watched in awe as a fellow runner sprints toward me sporting a solitary track shoe.
- Nancy & Lee also had a solitary UK hit single: the glorious, saucy, surreal ‘Did You Ever?’
- Unfortunately it was a solitary shiny penny gleaming out of a pool of mud.
- It all hinged on the fact that Boro didn't have more to show for that sparkling first half display other than one solitary goal scored in the 10th minute which was credited by most to an Alfreton defender!
- Dozens of officers forming a Guard of Honour snapped to attention as the procession, headed by two mounted officers and the solitary drummer, sombrely approached the building.
- In the Under-14 final, Selby Olympia enjoyed the narrowest of victories over Heworth winning by a solitary goal, scored in the first-half of a tense final.
- I spotted the occasional solitary example in the distance, but I was encumbered with a camera.
- Every single, solitary person admitted was female.
- A contemptuous demolition of their continental colleagues over the course of 18 qualifying matches included 13 wins and a solitary defeat, by Brazil.
- Against Galway United a solitary goal was enough; the famous victory over Stella Maris relied on Niall O'Brien's late intervention.
- It seems like the whole idea of the merger is being exploited to the point where absolutely no two solitary concepts or institutions are left alone.
- One day, in a fit of extreme frustration, I sent in a single solitary letter voicing my said opinion about the magazine's quality.
- In the distance he could see a solitary fighter plane - they flew there all the time for refuel and repair, so not an unusual sight.
- But it was, sadly, Ireland's solitary response.
- Amidst the many ruffians scattered about the bar, this visitor wearing a brown cotton suit with matching cream tie stood out like a solitary star in the nighttime sky.
- Like the most popular girl at school, you'd be hard pressed to find a single, solitary fault with the group.
Synonyms single, lone, sole, unique, only, one, individual odd
nounPlural solitaries ˈsɒlɪt(ə)riˈsɑləˌtɛri 1A recluse or hermit. he had something of the solitary about him Example sentencesExamples - The virtue of this production is that it reminds us that most of Chekhov's characters are solitaries trapped inside their own skins.
- The support system a member of a coven enjoys is not available to a solitary.
- Who would have thought that Christian solitaries from the Egyptian desert of late antiquity would speak with such authority to us today?
- He says to the ‘Outcasts of America… We make theater, we make community ’, thus finding a way to ‘entertain and educate the solitaries that make up a community’.
- This question applies with particular acuteness to the situation of hermits or solitaries.
- Frostian solitaries love to challenge fate and to assert their hard-won visionary power while deprecating their epiphanic achievement with comic whimsy.
- I was originally thinking of solitaries, but I guess alienation might work just as well.
- But then, upon reflection, it dawned on me that everyone who practices the Craft is, at their very core, an eclectic solitary.
- Similarly, ask a roomful of Pagan solitaries what their religion is, and you are as likely as not to get a similar number of answers.
- As community members and solitaries, we need to be aware of our own personal path before we step into the larger community.
- For the significance of the outlaw to Dylan is less that of the rebel and more the solitary who rejects established religion for the direct inspiration of truth.
- Our covens and groves are as sovereign as our solitaries, and they need to remain so.
- I agree with Robert Campbell and Archon Fung that Americans have not significantly become detached social solitaries, ‘bowling alone,’ as Robert Putnam concluded.
- I have met solitaries that did write their own rituals out, but when it came down to writing a ritual to involve others they were at a loss.
- We have no degrees or initiations, although a few members have expressed an interest in having initiations because, as solitaries, they feel they missed this group experience.
- His jaw dropped, and I felt ashamed of my answer, for who was I to so speak to a Brother, even if he be a solitary?
- The Pagan literature aimed at beginners, the vast majority of whom are solitaries, always praises the virtues of an outdoor ritual.
- Before I started on this path, I assumed all solitaries were lonely, removed from the Pagan community, or just plain not serious about their spirituality.
- Accordingly Oram encases the vast garden-jungle set inside a circular drum, implying that Williams's characters are themselves deranged solitaries.
- Though widely read Lyautey was not a pensive solitary.
Synonyms loner, lone wolf, introvert, recluse, hermit in Japan hikikomori rare eremite, anchorite, anchoress, stylite, cenobite 2informal short for solitary confinement Example sentencesExamples - Consequently, a further 200 prisoners who did a solitary stretch may now seek a wad of cash, courtesy of the taxpayer, taking the total to millions of dollars.
- After leaving solitary, he will ultimately be sent to a different minimum-security facility.
- Does he get punished, does he ever get in the solitary?
Origin Middle English: from Latin solitarius, from solus 'alone'. Definition of solitary in US English: solitaryadjectiveˈsɑləˌtɛriˈsäləˌterē 1Done or existing alone. I live a pretty solitary life tigers are essentially solitary Example sentencesExamples - You describe yourself as an isolated, solitary kid, and then you moved into writing, which is often a solitary profession.
- Unlikely - I've always been rather a solitary type, enjoying my own company and taking holidays alone.
- The beginning of the book describes his mostly solitary existence, the noises and sights of the press, and it's beautifully personal and focused.
- Another legend of Taoism said Zhao Gongming originally came from Zhongnan Mountain and lived a remote and solitary life to practise his skills.
- I think most people in witchcraft or paganism practise in a solitary way,’ she said.
- From this encounter, Paley assures us, our solitary walker could be sure of one thing: a man - a thinking being - has been this way.
- I dined in solitary state, all alone in the castle's gilt-and-blue dining hall.
- A solitary bad person sitting alone, harbouring genocidal thoughts, and wishing he ruled the world is not a problem unless he lives next to us in the trailer park.
- I was a solitary boy, shy and withdrawn, who preferred to be left alone to read.
- His existence is solitary (because his pursuits go unrecognised/unvalued) and (in every sense) misguided.
- Electronic musicians tend to be a solitary bunch and like to work alone in home studios.
- And yet-such is the naïve openness of one's solitary thoughts it took only a little change of light for me to see the matter differently.
- It also sanctifies the idea of the reclusive, solitary genius at the expense of the artist who engages with society and the world at large.
- Shrek himself (voiced by Mike Myers) is an unpleasant, solitary ogre who lives alone in a swamp.
- Gone are my constant internet access, my masses of free alone time, my lengthy solitary lunches.
- ‘That one over there,’ he said, nodding at a solitary figure in the distance which tripped and stumbled along the edge of the main road.
- This project is a sculptural work that stemmed from my interest in sci-fi, technology, and the impulse for relaxation or solitary meditation.
- And so I think that there really are many forms of courage, although the one that I think most of us respond to is the solitary figure who really does risk it all.
- But l must do them alone, and lately I cannot be solitary.
- A mate who doesn't need your help may prove aloof and solitary.
Synonyms lonely, companionless, unaccompanied, by itself, by oneself, on its own, on one's own, alone, all alone, friendless - 1.1 (of a place) secluded or isolated.
Example sentencesExamples - The third door to your right leads into an old solitary room.
- They began an anxious search, and eventually they found him in the solitary place where He had gone to pray.
- Ben left his horse tethered to the low-hanging branches of a slender pine and walked the short distance to the solitary grave.
- Christmas Island is remote and solitary, and its gentle beauty can change within seconds when the north-westerly monsoons lash the island.
- I still find this extremely disconcerting so I went in search of a solitary place to relax.
- It's a rugged, wild, solitary place with phenomenal tides and massive seas.
- What I wanted most was to be in the same position, and not to see the future as a solitary road.
- In 1926, he withdrew himself in to a solitary room and cut himself from the outer world.
- Only the lights of a solitary highway showed the earth leaping ever closer.
- His nights and days were spent in solitary places where silence reigned supreme.
- The solitary field is often stocked with brown Welsh mountain sheep.
- People sometimes have the feeling that by going to a solitary place where the environment is quiet, they will experience peace and happiness.
- Every moment of my life instead of feeling happy, I wanted to run into a solitary room and just cry and cry and cry.
- Calm and motionless, wholly focused on the surveillance of those below, the two men watched from their solitary position of concealment.
- And from this solitary passageway, the Demon Prince Dearth, along with a number of followers, entered on horseback.
- So in order to avoid the police and stares of the public, he kept to the solitary alleys.
- In this dark solitary place, married to this shy, watchful man, her cheerfulness was a bubble-bath in a blizzard.
- So he took to caves and solitary places for severe penance and meditation.
- With a scoff, she turned and headed back into her solitary fortress… but those icy green eyes still haunted the shadowy corners of her mind.
- I was so wrapped up in confusion and suspicion that I forgot to wonder why Jacquiline would want me to meet her privately in a solitary room.
Synonyms isolated, remote, out of the way, outlying, off the beaten track, in the depths of …, hard to find, lonely, in the back of beyond, in the hinterlands, off the map, in the middle of nowhere, godforsaken, obscure, inaccessible, cut-off, tucked away, unreachable - 1.2attributive often with negative Single; only.
we have not a solitary shred of evidence to go on Example sentencesExamples - It all hinged on the fact that Boro didn't have more to show for that sparkling first half display other than one solitary goal scored in the 10th minute which was credited by most to an Alfreton defender!
- In the Under-14 final, Selby Olympia enjoyed the narrowest of victories over Heworth winning by a solitary goal, scored in the first-half of a tense final.
- Unfortunately it was a solitary shiny penny gleaming out of a pool of mud.
- Like the most popular girl at school, you'd be hard pressed to find a single, solitary fault with the group.
- Against Galway United a solitary goal was enough; the famous victory over Stella Maris relied on Niall O'Brien's late intervention.
- Instead, they occupy solitary locations within the genome.
- Laid out before you, you have 73 different types of fruit - a succulent, juicy example of every variety you can think of - but not one single, solitary apple.
- Amidst the many ruffians scattered about the bar, this visitor wearing a brown cotton suit with matching cream tie stood out like a solitary star in the nighttime sky.
- One day, in a fit of extreme frustration, I sent in a single solitary letter voicing my said opinion about the magazine's quality.
- But it was, sadly, Ireland's solitary response.
- Everything is in my book, like every single solitary thing that has happened to me in my life, I put out there.
- Nancy & Lee also had a solitary UK hit single: the glorious, saucy, surreal ‘Did You Ever?’
- Every single, solitary person admitted was female.
- Dozens of officers forming a Guard of Honour snapped to attention as the procession, headed by two mounted officers and the solitary drummer, sombrely approached the building.
- In the distance he could see a solitary fighter plane - they flew there all the time for refuel and repair, so not an unusual sight.
- It seems like the whole idea of the merger is being exploited to the point where absolutely no two solitary concepts or institutions are left alone.
- The United States struck back to restrict Ian Thorpe and Australia to one solitary silver medal on day four of the Olympics.
- I spotted the occasional solitary example in the distance, but I was encumbered with a camera.
- When I'm out running on my lunch hour, not once have I watched in awe as a fellow runner sprints toward me sporting a solitary track shoe.
- A contemptuous demolition of their continental colleagues over the course of 18 qualifying matches included 13 wins and a solitary defeat, by Brazil.
Synonyms single, lone, sole, unique, only, one, individual - 1.3 (of a bird, mammal, or insect) living alone or in pairs, especially in contrast to related social forms.
Example sentencesExamples - Other faunal elements include colonial and solitary corals, encrusting bryozoans, stromatoporoids, and rare brachiopods.
- While a few hydrozoans, such as Hydra, are solitary polyps, most live in colonies made up of anywhere from a few to thousands of individual polyps.
- Masonry or mortar bees are referred to as solitary bees, a class that also includes mining and carpenter bees.
- However, little is known about costs of parental investment in insects, particularly in solitary as well as social aculeate Hymenoptera.
- All previous reports of orchid pollination through pseudocopulation involve solitary wasps or bees.
- 1.4 (of a flower or other part) borne singly.
Example sentencesExamples - Petioles of huge solitary leaves of mature plants of Amorphophallus resemble tree trunks supporting an umbrella-like crown.
- The solitary flowers are borne on long, wiry pedicels.
- Pelliciera has solitary flowers that are accompanied by two large coloured prophylls.
- All plants of O. parryi var. parryi sampled were solitary and all plants were shorter than one meter.
- The capitula were small, in lax panicles or, rarely, solitary.
nounˈsɑləˌtɛriˈsäləˌterē 1A recluse or hermit. Example sentencesExamples - The virtue of this production is that it reminds us that most of Chekhov's characters are solitaries trapped inside their own skins.
- We have no degrees or initiations, although a few members have expressed an interest in having initiations because, as solitaries, they feel they missed this group experience.
- Our covens and groves are as sovereign as our solitaries, and they need to remain so.
- Before I started on this path, I assumed all solitaries were lonely, removed from the Pagan community, or just plain not serious about their spirituality.
- I agree with Robert Campbell and Archon Fung that Americans have not significantly become detached social solitaries, ‘bowling alone,’ as Robert Putnam concluded.
- I have met solitaries that did write their own rituals out, but when it came down to writing a ritual to involve others they were at a loss.
- Similarly, ask a roomful of Pagan solitaries what their religion is, and you are as likely as not to get a similar number of answers.
- His jaw dropped, and I felt ashamed of my answer, for who was I to so speak to a Brother, even if he be a solitary?
- I was originally thinking of solitaries, but I guess alienation might work just as well.
- Accordingly Oram encases the vast garden-jungle set inside a circular drum, implying that Williams's characters are themselves deranged solitaries.
- Frostian solitaries love to challenge fate and to assert their hard-won visionary power while deprecating their epiphanic achievement with comic whimsy.
- For the significance of the outlaw to Dylan is less that of the rebel and more the solitary who rejects established religion for the direct inspiration of truth.
- He says to the ‘Outcasts of America… We make theater, we make community ’, thus finding a way to ‘entertain and educate the solitaries that make up a community’.
- Though widely read Lyautey was not a pensive solitary.
- But then, upon reflection, it dawned on me that everyone who practices the Craft is, at their very core, an eclectic solitary.
- The support system a member of a coven enjoys is not available to a solitary.
- Who would have thought that Christian solitaries from the Egyptian desert of late antiquity would speak with such authority to us today?
- The Pagan literature aimed at beginners, the vast majority of whom are solitaries, always praises the virtues of an outdoor ritual.
- This question applies with particular acuteness to the situation of hermits or solitaries.
- As community members and solitaries, we need to be aware of our own personal path before we step into the larger community.
Synonyms loner, lone wolf, introvert, recluse, hermit 2informal short for solitary confinement Example sentencesExamples - Does he get punished, does he ever get in the solitary?
- After leaving solitary, he will ultimately be sent to a different minimum-security facility.
- Consequently, a further 200 prisoners who did a solitary stretch may now seek a wad of cash, courtesy of the taxpayer, taking the total to millions of dollars.
Origin Middle English: from Latin solitarius, from solus ‘alone’. |