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Definition of ALONE

1

not being in the company of others <no one realized the boy was alone in his room so they all left for the movies without him>

Synonyms lone, lonely, lonesome, single, solitary, solo, unaccompanied

Related Words unattended, unchaperoned; forlorn, friendless; cloistered, disassociated, hermetic (also hermetical), insulated, isolate, isolated, remote, retired, secluded, withdrawn; quarantined, segregated, separated, sequestered; separate, unattached, unconnected, unlinked; detached, disconnected, disjointed, dissociated, disunited, divided, fractionated; abandoned, adrift, deserted, desolate, forgotten, forsaken, lorn, neglected

Phrases on one's own

Near Antonyms attended, chaperoned, escorted; adjacent, adjoining, communicating, contiguous, neighboring, next-door; attached, connected, coupled, linked

Antonyms accompanied

2

being the one or ones of a class with no other members <he is alone among the actors of his generation in his exceptional ability to play both comedic and serious parts>

Synonyms alone, lone, one, one-off, singular, sole, solitary, special, sui generis, unique

Related Words single, solo, unaccompanied, unattended; incomparable, inimitable, matchless, peerless, unequaled (or unequalled), unmatched, unparalleled, unrivaled (or unrivalled), unsurpassable, unsurpassed; distinct, distinctive, individual, separate; nonce

Near Antonyms divers, manifold, multifarious, myriad; assorted, heterogenous, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, patchwork, promiscuous, varied; popular, prevailing, prevalent, rampant; perennial, recurrent, repeated