lonelyadjective
uk/ˈləʊn.li/us/ˈloʊn.li/B1 unhappy because you are not with other people:
She gets lonely now that all the kids have left home.
the lonely life of a widower
B2 A lonely place is a long way from where people live:
a lonely stretch of Arizona highway
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- Da Silva plays a bright, lonely student from New York, adrift in small-town Arizona.
- He couldn't bear to think of the lonely year ahead.
- He felt lonely and far from home.
- I know what it's like to be lonely, so I do feel for her.
- You can't complain of being lonely when you don't make any effort to meet people.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Feeling sad and unhappy
- (down) in the dumps idiom
- a dog's life idiom
- a long face idiom
- abject
- be cut up idiom
- be down in the mouth idiom
- be in a funk idiom
- bruised
- distressed
- dog
- doleful
- dour
- grieving
- miserably
- mope
- mope around (somewhere)
- morose
- mournful
- not be a happy camper idiom
- wretched
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Alone
Distant in space and time
Idiom(s)
lonely hearts