Definition of loner
:one that avoids others;
especially
:individualist
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Examples of loner in a Sentence
The killer was a loner with no friends.
that guy in tech support is a loner, and never wants to hang out with the rest of us
Recent Examples of loner from the Web
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Set in the outback, this grisly pageant of suffering tells an ultraviolent story of backpackers who become the victim of a torture-loving loner.
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FORT MITCHELL - The banner from 2008 is no longer a loner.
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Nolan is perhaps best known for his trilogy of Batman films, particularly The Dark Knight (2008), which characterizes the Gotham superhero as a reclusive, reluctant loner with a bruised soul.
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How this emotionally distant loner ever managed to become the lover of married Israeli businessman Oren (Roy Miller), who is in the German capital at least once a month, is conveniently lost in an ellipsis.
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O’Brien’s librarian is a heartbroken, anal-retentive loner who has a catharsis when someone returns a book that’s 123 years overdue.
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Best of all, though, is the chimp played by Steve Zahn, an old-man loner who goes by a name some humans gave him long ago: Bad Ape.
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As movingly played by Milwaukee native Nathaniel Stampley, Robert is also more tentative and vulnerable than Waller’s mythic cowboy; Stampley’s Robert isn’t a player but a loner.
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The FBI also filled in some of the details of Hodgkinson’s background, adding to the portrait of the suspect that had emerged days after the shooting as an angry loner.
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First Known Use of loner
1947
loner Synonyms
Synonyms
bohemian, boho, counterculturist, deviant, enfant terrible, free spirit, heretic, iconoclast, individualist, nonconformist, lone ranger, lone wolf, maverick, nonconformerAntonyms
conformer, conformistRelated Words
freethinker; character, codger, crackbrain, crackpot, crank, eccentric, freak, kook, nut, oddball, screwball, weirdo; eight ball, misfit, outsider; aberrant, anomalyNear Antonyms
adherent, follower, supporter; sheepLONER Defined for English Language Learners
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