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Another word for lonesome

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Adjective

  1. Dejected due to the awareness of being alone

    See also:

    happy

  2. Lacking the company of others

    See also:

    include

  3. Empty of people

    See also:

    full

  4. Far from centers of human population

    Idioms:
    See also:

    near

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Another word for lonesome

Modifier
  1. See also:

    alone

    lonely

    homesick

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Sentence Examples

  • She gets lonesome when Jonathan is gone.

  • No I just thought the house looked lonesome down here, so I came to visit.

  • Some have asked what I got to eat; if I did not feel lonesome; if I was not afraid; and the like.

  • I have never felt lonesome, or in the least oppressed by a sense of solitude, but once, and that was a few weeks after I came to the woods, when, for an hour, I doubted if the near neighborhood of man was not essential to a serene and healthy life.

  • Men frequently say to me, "I should think you would feel lonesome down there, and want to be nearer to folks, rainy and snowy days and nights especially."

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