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Etymology

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From lone +‎ -ly, or from an apheretic shortening of alonely. See lone.

Pronunciation

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈləʊnli/
• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈloʊnli/

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• (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈləʉnli/
• (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈlɐʉnli/
• (Indic, Caribbean) IPA(key): /ˈloːnli/
• (General South African) IPA(key): /ˈlœʊnli/
• Rhymes: -əʊnli
• Hyphenation: lone‧ly

Adjective

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lonely (comparative lonelier, superlative loneliest)

1. Unhappy due to feeling isolated from contact with other people.
   • 1941, “At Last”, Mack Gordon, Harry Warren (music), performed by Glenn Miller, Ray Eberle (vocals), and Pat Friday (vocals):At lastMy love has come alongMy lonely days are overAnd life is like a song
   • 1956, “Heartbreak Hotel”, Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden, Elvis Presley (lyrics), performed by Elvis Presley:Well, since my baby left me,Well, I found a new place to dwell.Well, it's down at the end of Lonely StreetAt Heartbreak Hotel.Where I'll be, I'll be so lonely, babyWell, I'm so lonelyI'll be so lonely, I could die.
   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Penguin, published 1976, →OCLC, part 1, page 86: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.
   • 1980 March 7, Billy Joel, “You May Be Right”, in Glass Houses‎[1]:You were lonely for a manI said, "Take me as I am"'Cause you might enjoy some madness for a while
   • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
2. (of a place or time) Unfrequented by people; desolate.
   • 1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods‎[2], London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 2:Only to those to whom in lonely passes in the night the gods have spoken, leaning through the stars, to those that have heard the voices of the gods above the morning or seen Their faces bending above the sea, only to those hath it been given to see Sardathrion, to stand where her pinnacles gathered together in the night fresh from the dreams of gods.
   • 1970, Wilfrido D. Nolledo, chapter 19, in But for the Lovers, Dalkey Archive Press, page 165:[…] San Sebastian Church was desolate in the courtyard; emptier, lonelier inside with its pews stretched out like fallen pylons varnished by dolorous residue. From each candlelit nook stared in stony despair one after another saint, regal and rueful: proffering forgiveness, peace, a todo.
3. (of a person) Without companions; solitary.
   • 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LXV:By a lone wall a lonelier column rears.

Synonyms

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• (dejected): lonesome
• (unfrequented by people): desolate, desert, empty, unpeopled, unpopulated
• (without companions): solitary, alone, unaccompanied

Derived terms

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• it's lonely at the top
• lonelihood
• lonelily
• lonely-heart
• lonely-hearted
• lonelyhearted
• lonely-hearts
• nonlonely
• plough a lonely furrow
• unlonely

Related terms

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• lone
• loneliness

Translations

[edit] of person: unhappy by feeling isolated

Arabic: وَحِيد (waḥīd), مُوحِش (mūḥiš) Armenian: միայնակ (hy) (miaynak) Azerbaijani: tənha (az), tək (az), yalnız (az), yalqız (az), fərd (az) (Classical) Bakhtiari: تک (tak) Bashkir: яңғыҙ (yañğıź) Belarusian: само́тны (samótny), адзіно́кі (adzinóki) Bengali: একাকী (bn) (ekaki) Bikol Central: makapungaw Bulgarian: само́тен (bg) (samóten) Catalan: solitari (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 寂寞 (zh) (jìmò) Czech: osamělý (cs) Danish: ensom Dutch: eenzaam (nl), alleen (nl), allenig (nl), alleenig Esperanto: soleca Estonian: üksildane Faroese: einsamallur, eina, einsligur, einsamur Finnish: yksinäinen (fi) French: seul (fr) Galician: solitario (gl) German: einsam (de), alleinig (de) Greek: Ancient: ἐρῆμος (erêmos) Hebrew: גַּלְמוּד (he) (galmud) Hindi: अकेला (hi) (akelā) Hungarian: magányos (hu) Hunsrik: eensam Icelandic: einmana (is) Italian: solo (it), solitario (it), malinconico (it) Japanese: 寂しい (ja) (さびしい, sabishii) Khmer: អបមាន (ʼɑpmiən), កំព្រាចិត្ត (kɑmpriəcəttɑɑ), អន្លង់អន្លោច (ʼɑɑnlŭəngʼɑɑnlooc) Korean: 외롭다 (ko) (oeropda), 고독하다 (ko) (godokhada) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: تەنھا (tenha), بێکەس (ckb) (bêkes) Latin: sōlitārius Lithuanian: vienišas Macedonian: осамен (osamen), самотен (samoten) Malay: kesunyian (ms), kesepian (ms), keseorangan, terpencil, sepi (ms) Manchu: ᠯᠣᡴᡩᠣᡥᠣᠨ (lokdohon) Maori: aroaroā Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: ensom (no) Nynorsk: einsam (nn) Old Prussian: ainaseīlingis Ottoman Turkish: یالڭز (yalñız) Persian: تنها (fa) (tanhâ), بی‌کس (bi-kas) Plautdietsch: eensiedlich Polish: samotny (pl) Portuguese: solitário (pt) Russian: одино́кий (ru) (odinókij) Scottish Gaelic: aonaranach, uaigneach Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: у̀са̄мљен Roman: ùsāmljen (sh) Slovak: osamelý Slovene: osamljen Spanish: solitario (es), solo (es) Swedish: ensam (sv) Tagalog: nalalaiw Thai: เหงา (th) (ngǎo) Tibetan: གྲོགས་མེད་གཅིག་རྐྱང (grogs med gcig rkyang) Turkish: yalnız (tr), yapayalnız (tr), garip (tr), gariban (tr), kimsesiz (tr) Ukrainian: само́тній (samótnij) Unami: sinkòmàlsi Vietnamese: cô đơn (vi), lẻ loi (vi) Yiddish: עלנט (elnt), איינזאַם (eynzam)

of place: desolate

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: osamělý (cs) Dutch: afgelegen (nl) French: désert (fr), abandonné (fr) German: abgeschieden (de), einsam (de), öde (de), verlassen (de) Greek: Ancient: ἐρῆμος (erêmos) Italian: desolato (it), isolato (it) Japanese: please add this translation if you can Khmer: ឯកោ (ʼaekao), វិជនដ្ឋាន (km) (vĭchnôdthan) Korean: 황량하다 (hwangnyanghada) Malay: terpencil Norwegian: Bokmål: ensom (no) Portuguese: isolado (pt) Russian: одино́кий (ru) (odinókij), уединённый (ru) (ujedinjónnyj), безлю́дный (ru) (bezljúdnyj) Scottish Gaelic: aonaranach, uaigneach Serbo-Croatian: ùsāmljen (sh), òsāmljen (sh) Spanish: desolado (es), desierto (es), aislado (es) Swedish: öde (sv) Thai: รกร้าง (th) Turkish: ıssız (tr), tenha (tr) Ukrainian: відлю́дний (vidljúdnyj) Vietnamese: hoang tàn (vi)

solitary — see solitary

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• Nolley

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