Entry Word: alone

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 not being in the company of others <no one realized Jeff was alone in his room so they all left for the movies without him>

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

Related Words unattended, unchaperoned; forlorn, friendless; cloistered, insulated, isolated, remote, retired, secluded, withdrawn; quarantined, segregated, separated, sequestered; separate, unattached, unconnected, unlinked; detached, disconnected, disjointed, dissociated, disunited,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

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> — see only 2