lonesome - Definition & Meaning | Lingo Dictionary

lone

some

unhappy because of lonelinessunhappy because of loneliness

Examples

He felt lonesome after moving to a new city where he didn’t know anyone.
Despite being surrounded by people, she couldn’t shake her lonesome feelings.
She became lonesome after her friends left for college, leaving her behind.

Synonyms

lonely lonesome desolate forlorn alone solitary

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lone

some

Comparative

more lonesome

Superlative

most lonesome

1

unhappy because of loneliness

He felt lonesome after moving to a new city where he didn’t know anyone.
Despite being surrounded by people, she couldn’t shake her lonesome feelings.
She became lonesome after her friends left for college, leaving her behind.

Synonyms:

lonely desolate forlorn alone solitary

2

being the only one; single and isolated from others

Synonyms:

lone(a)lonesome(a)solitary(a)only(a)sole(a)

3

(of a place) isolated, remote, and rarely visited by people

The lonesome cabin sat deep in the woods, far from any nearby towns or roads.
He wandered down a lonesome dirt path that hadn’t seen footsteps in years.
The lonesome beach stretched for miles, with no one else in sight.
A lonesome farmhouse stood alone on the vast, empty prairie.
The hiker found himself in a lonesome valley, surrounded only by the sounds of nature.

Synonyms:

out-of-the-way far-flung obscure lonely remote apart secluded desolate reclusive outlying forlorn solitary isolated lone