Another word for lonely
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Adjective
Lacking the company of others
- Going or acting without companions or a companion:
- Performed or scored without accompaniment.
- Existing, living, or going without others; alone:
- Happening, done, or made alone:
- Remote from civilization; secluded:
- Not accompanied by another or others; solitary.
- Consisting of one part, aspect, or section:
- Having the same application for all; uniform:
- Dejected because of a lack of companionship.
- Producing such dejection:
- Deserted; unfrequented:
- Without accompaniment; solitary:
- Being the only one; sole:
- Situated by itself:
- Being apart from others; solitary.
- Being without anyone or anything else; only.
- Considered separately from all others of the same class.
Empty of people
- Receiving few or no travelers or visitors:
- Dejected because of a lack of companionship.
- Producing such dejection:
- Deserted; unfrequented:
- Located in a dismal or remote area.
- Desolate; forlorn.
- Abandoned, deserted, or desolate:
- Sad or lonely, especially from being deserted or abandoned:
- Suggesting or characterized by sadness or loneliness:
- Devoid of inhabitants; deserted:
- Barren; lifeless:
- Feeling, showing, causing, or expressing sadness or loneliness.
- No longer occupied or used; abandoned:
- Uninhabited:
Far from centers of human population
- Existing, living, or going without others; alone:
- Happening, done, or made alone:
- Remote from civilization; secluded:
- Removed or remote from others; solitary:
- Screened from view; sequestered:
- Distant in space, time, or nature; remote.
- Separated in relationship by a given degree of descent:
- Located far away; distant in space.
- Hidden away; secluded:
- Distant in time:
- Being in a remote or secluded location:
- Being out of the ordinary; unusual:
- Improper; offensive:
- Relatively distant or remote from a center or middle:
- Deficient in light; dark:
- So faintly perceptible as to lack clear delineation; indistinct:
- Indistinctly heard; faint.
- Dejected because of a lack of companionship.
- Producing such dejection:
- Deserted; unfrequented:
- Far from others or difficult to get to; remote:
- Occasional or rare:
- Characterized by little social contact:
- Of, relating to, or constituting an island.
- Living or located on an island.
- Suggestive of the isolated life of an island:
- The part of the trunk of the human body along and to the sides of the spine between the neck and the pelvis; the dorsum.
- The analogous dorsal region in other animals.
- The backbone or spine.
Dejected due to the awareness of being alone
- Abandoned; forlorn.
- Dejected because of a lack of companionship.
- Producing such dejection:
- Deserted; unfrequented:
- Abandoned, deserted, or desolate:
- Sad or lonely, especially from being deserted or abandoned:
- Suggesting or characterized by sadness or loneliness:
- Devoid of inhabitants; deserted:
- Barren; lifeless:
- Feeling, showing, causing, or expressing sadness or loneliness.
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Another word for lonely
Modifier
Without company
- Of or relating to people who are looking for companions or marriage partners:
- One that has been excluded from a society or system.
- Seeming beyond consolation; extremely dejected:
- Cheerless; gloomy:
- Not befriended; lacking friends.
- Going or acting without companions or a companion:
- Performed or scored without accompaniment.
- simple past tense and past participle of reject
- Abandoned; forlorn.
- Not accompanied by another or others; solitary.
- Consisting of one part, aspect, or section:
- Having the same application for all; uniform:
- Of or pertaining to troglodytes, or dwellers in caves
- Of or pertaining to an anchorite
- Seeking or preferring seclusion or isolation.
- Providing seclusion:
- Having or showing a lack of desire for the company of others.
- At a distance in place, position, or time:
- Away from another or others:
- In or into parts or pieces:
- Having nothing inside or on the surface; holding or containing nothing:
- Having no elements or members; null:
- Having no occupants; not being used:
- Not being attended to, looked after, or watched:
- Having no attendants:
- Not being paid attention to or listened to:
- Removed or remote from others; solitary:
- Screened from view; sequestered:
- Emotionally unresponsive or socially detached; introverted or aloof.
- Deprived of something:
- Lacking something needed or expected:
- Suffering the death of a loved one; bereaved:
- Having no home or haven.
- People without homes considered as a group. Often used with the.
- Devoid of inhabitants; deserted:
- Barren; lifeless:
- Feeling, showing, causing, or expressing sadness or loneliness.
- No longer occupied or used; abandoned:
- Uninhabited:
- abandoned; desolate; forlorn
- Offering no comfort.
- Deserted; forsaken.
- Exuberantly enthusiastic.
- Recklessly unrestrained.
- Being apart from others; solitary.
- Being without anyone or anything else; only.
- Considered separately from all others of the same class.
- Without accompaniment; solitary:
- Being the only one; sole:
- Situated by itself:
- Existing, living, or going without others; alone:
- Happening, done, or made alone:
- Remote from civilization; secluded:
- Dejected because of a lack of companionship.
- Producing such dejection:
- Deserted; unfrequented:
- Abandoned, deserted, or desolate:
- Sad or lonely, especially from being deserted or abandoned:
- Suggesting or characterized by sadness or loneliness:
Inaccessible or unfrequented
- Having no residents; not inhabited.
- Receiving few or no travelers or visitors:
- Devoid of inhabitants; deserted:
- Barren; lifeless:
- Feeling, showing, causing, or expressing sadness or loneliness.
- Located far away; distant in space.
- Hidden away; secluded:
- Distant in time:
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