solitary

solitary
adj
1. alone, unattended, compan-ionless,Scof. waff; sole, single, lone, individual; apart, separate, cut off; deserted, abandoned, outcast, derelict, forlorn, forsaken.
2. by oneself, unassisted, unaided, single-handed.
3. one, only, exclusive, unique, freakish, unrepeated; unparalleled, unequaled, unmatched, nonpareil.
4. unfrequented, secluded, hidden, lonely, isolated, private, remote, solitudinous; recluse, sequestered, cloistered, set apart; cut off, desolate, out-of-the-way, unvisited, in a backwater.
5. antisocial, unsocial, unsociable, estranged, alienated, friendless; retiring, withdrawn, reclusive, Inf. introverted; hermitlike, hermitical, monastic, monachal, eremitical, eremitic, anchoritic, stylitic.
n
6. recluse, hermit, eremite, anchorite, stylite, pillarist; cenobite, monk, monastic; troglodyte, cave dweller, incluse.
7. loner, Inf. lone wolf, isolate, isolator, Inf. introvert.

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  • Solitary — Sol i*ta*ry, n. One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret; a hermit; a recluse. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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