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lonesome

[ lohn-suhm ]

adjective

  1. depressed or sad because of the lack of friends, companionship, etc.; lonely:

    to feel lonesome.

  2. attended with or causing such a state or feeling:

    a lonesome evening at home.

  3. lonely or deserted in situation; remote, desolate, or isolated:

    a lonesome road.



lonesome

/ ˈləʊnsəm /

adjective

  1. another word for lonely
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noun

  1. on one's lonesome or by one's lonesome informal.
    on one's own
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈlonesomely, adverb
  • ˈlonesomeness, noun
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Other Words From

  • lonesome·ly adverb
  • lonesome·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lonesome1

First recorded in 1640–50; lone + -some 1
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. on / by one's lonesome, Informal. alone: Also Scot., by one's lane.

    She went walking by her lonesome.

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Synonym Study

See alone.
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Example Sentences

Driving around after dark is a lonesome experience, the eerie consequence of what many label a “voluntary” curfew.

On one particular evening, days before Sam’s birthday — a date that looms large in the life of this lonesome duo — Amelia reads from a book she’s never seen before on the shelf.

Shy himself is movingly human — full of vim but also lonesome and afraid.

Skinny is lonesome and confused until six Junior Club cartoonists — including Hardie Gramatky, who went on to become a watercolorist admired by Andrew Wyeth — walk into the frame and heartily welcome the boy.

At times in his scenes with Krieps, you’d swear his smitten expressions are as much about a director’s gratitude than a lonesome tradesman’s good fortune.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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