lonely

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   marked by dejection from being alone

   felt sad and lonely

2. 2
   adj

   devoid of creatures

   a lonely crossroads

3. 3
   adj

   Unhappy due to feeling isolated from contact with other people.

   At last My love has come along My lonely days are over And life is like a song

4. 4
   adj

   Unfrequented by people; desolate.

   Only to those to whom in lonely passes in the night the gods have spoken, leaning through the stars, to those that have heard the voices of the gods above the morning or seen Their faces bending above the sea, only to those hath it been given to see Sardathrion, to stand where her pinnacles gathered together in the night fresh from the dreams of gods.

5. 5
   adj

   Without companions; solitary.

   By a lone wall a lonelier column rears.

6. 6
   adj

   characterized by or preferring solitude

7. 7
   adj

   lacking companions or companionship

Etymology

From lone + -ly, or from an apheretic shortening of alonely. See lone.