lonesome

/'lounli/ Cách viết khác : (lonesome) /'lounsəm/

Thân thiện

A traveler sits on a lonesome bench overlooking the valley.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Feeling sad due to being alone: Describes a state of unhappiness or dejection caused by solitude or lack of companionship.
   • Remote and desolate: Describes a place that is isolated, unfrequented, and often inducing a feeling of solitude.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • She felt lonesome after her children moved away.
  • The lonesome howl of a coyote echoed across the valley.
  • He walked down the lonesome country road.

Advanced Usage

• "Lonesome for (someone/something)": To miss someone or something deeply, feeling their absence.
  • After moving to the city, she was lonesome for the open fields of her hometown.

Variants and Related Words

• Lonesomeness (noun): The state or quality of being lonesome.
  • The lonesomeness of the desert was overwhelming.

Synonyms

• Lonely: Unhappy because of being alone or without friends.
• Solitary: Being, living, or going alone.
• Desolate: Feeling or showing great unhappiness or loneliness; also describing a barren, empty place.
• Forlorn: Pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely.

Related Idioms

• On one's lonesome: Completely alone; by oneself.
  • He had to finish the project on his lonesome.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. marked by dejection from being alone
   • felt sad and lonely
   • the loneliest night of the week
   • lonesome when her husband is away
   • spent a lonesome hour in the bar
2. being the only one; single and isolated from others
   • the lone doctor in the entire county
   • a lonesome pine
   • an only child
   • the sole heir
   • the sole example
   • a solitary instance of cowardice
   • a solitary speck in the sky

Từ đồng nghĩa

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