lonely

lonely
adj
1. lone, sole, single, individual; apart, cut off, separate, separated, isolated; solitary, unaccompanied, companionless, unattended, Scot. waff.
2. alone, lonesome, friendless, unfriended, unsocial, unsociable; retiring, reclusive, withdrawn, Inf. introverted, hermitlike, hermetical, monastic, monachal, eremitical, eremitic, anchoritic, stylitic, troglodytic.
3. estranged, alienated, outcast, forlorn, forsaken, bereft, abandoned, deserted, homeless; unwanted, unwelcomed, rejected, unpopular, unliked, disliked.
4. unfrequented, unvisited, unpopulated, unpeopled, uninhabited, desolate, barren; out of the way, obscure, insular, in a backwater; remote, set apart, secluded, solitudinous, recluse, sequestered, cloistered, hidden, concealed, private.

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