Entry Word: lonesome

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 sad from lack of companionship or separation from others <a lonesome kitten left at the pound by its owners>

Synonyms desolate, forlorn, lonely, lorn

Related Words friendless; abandoned, deserted, forgotten, forsaken, neglected; alone, lone, solitary; only, sole

Near Antonyms accompanied, attended, escorted

2 not being in the company of others <a lonesome cypress tree on a rocky, windswept point> — see alone 1