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lonesome
[ lohn-suhm ]
adjective
- depressed or sad because of the lack of friends, companionship, etc.; lonely:
to feel lonesome.
- attended with or causing such a state or feeling:
a lonesome evening at home.
- lonely or deserted in situation; remote, desolate, or isolated:
a lonesome road.
lonesome
/ ˈ±ôəʊ²Ô²õÉ™³¾ /
adjective
- another word for lonely
noun
- on one's lonesome or by one's lonesome informal.on one's own
Derived Forms
- ˈ±ô´Ç²Ô±ð²õ´Ç³¾±ð±ô²â, adverb
- ˈ±ô´Ç²Ô±ð²õ´Ç³¾±ð²Ô±ð²õ²õ, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±ô´Ç²Ô±ðs´Ç³¾±ð·±ô²â adverb
- ±ô´Ç²Ô±ðs´Ç³¾±ð·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- on / by one's lonesome, Informal. alone: Also Scot., by one's lane.
She went walking by her lonesome.
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
It took Ireland eight minutes to score at Murrayfield, the nerveless Sam Prendergast enjoying time and space and a penalty advantage to throw a long left-to-right pass to Calvin Nash, all on his lonesome.
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.
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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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