lonely
adjEtymology
From lone + -ly, or from an apheretic shortening of alonely. See lone.
Definitions
Unhappy due to feeling isolated from contact with other people.
- At last My love has come along My lonely days are over And life is like a song
- Well, since my baby left me, Well, I found a new place to dwell. Well, it's down at the end of Lonely Street At Heartbreak Hotel. Where I'll be, I'll be so lonely, baby Well, I'm so lonely I'll be so lonely, I could die.
- LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets god-awful cold in the winter but there’s a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
Unfrequented by people
Unfrequented by people; desolate.
Without companions
Without companions; solitary.
- By a lone wall a lonelier column rears.
The neighborhood
- synonymlonesomedejected
- neighborlone
- neighborloneliness
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at lonely. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at lonely. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
5 hops · closes at lonely
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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