lonely
Meaning of lonely
adjective
- sad because one has no friends or company.
lonely old people whose families do not care for them
- (of a place) unfrequented and remote.
a lonely country lane
late 16th century: from lone + -ly1.
Information about lonely
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of lonely
lonely
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- lonely is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
lonely synonyms
Meaning alone:
Meaning lonesome:
Meaning solitary:
Meaning lone:
Meaning far away from other places, buildings, or people; remote:
Meaning having no friends; alone:
Meaning (of a person) rejected or ostracized:
Meaning abandoned or deserted:
Meaning having been deserted or left:
Meaning dismiss as inadequate, unacceptable, or faulty:
Meaning not loved:
Meaning not or no longer desired:
Meaning not liked or popular:
Meaning feeling or showing sorrow; unhappy:
Meaning not happy:
Meaning pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely:
Meaning in low spirits from loss of hope or courage:
Meaning (of a place) empty of people:
Meaning (of a place) without inhabitants:
Meaning (of a place) having no inhabitants:
Meaning (of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness:
Meaning (of land) too poor to produce much or any vegetation:
Meaning (of a place) situated far from the main centres of population; distant:
Meaning (of a place) not seen or visited by many people; sheltered and private:
Meaning (of a place) isolated and hidden away:
Meaning lacking any merit or attraction:
lonely antonyms
Meaning liked or admired by many people or by a particular person or group:
Meaning having a large population; densely populated:
Meaning (of a space) full of people, leaving little or no room for movement; packed:
Translation of lonely
- Portuguese: solitário, só, solitária
- German: einsam, allein
- French: seul, solitaire
- Spanish: solo, solitario, sola
- Italian: solo, solitario
Words that rhyme with lonely
Hanely, arcanely, cranely, germanely, humanely, immanely, inanely, inhumanely, insanely, inurbanely, lanely, mundanely, nonprofanely, nonsanely, profanely, sanely, semiprofanely, submontanely, unhumanely, unmundanely, unprofanely, unurbanely, urbanely, wanely, obscenely, overserenely, serenely, terrenely, unobscenely, unserenely, Philistinely, affinely, alpinely, asininely, bovinely, clandestinely, divinely, equinely, felinely, femininely, ferinely, finely, genuinely, leoninely, machinely, masculinely, matutinely, nongenuinely, nonmasculinely, nonsanguinely
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