Thesaurus
lonely
Synonyms and Antonyms of lonely
- a single lonely cactus in the desert
cloistered, disassociated, hermetic (also hermetical), insulated, isolate, isolated, remote, retired, secluded, withdrawn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
abandoned, adrift, deserted, desolate, forgotten, forsaken, lorn, neglected
on one's own
- I was lonely when I first got to Los Angeles, but I soon made friends.
- the lonely streets of a honky-tonk beach town in the off-season
black, bleak, cheerless, chill, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, wretched
blue, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, down, droopy, hangdog, inconsolable, low, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, sad, unhappy, woebegone, woeful
dim, discomfiting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, upsetting
desperate, hopeless, pessimistic
lamentable, mournful, plaintive, sorrowful
dour, grim, lowering (also louring), lowery (also loury), menacing, oppressive, threatening
Synonym Discussion of lonely
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- everyone needs to be alone sometimes
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- glorying in the calm of her solitary life
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- left solitary by the death of his wife
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- felt lonely and forsaken
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- an only child often leads a lonesome life
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- a lone robin pecking at the lawn
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- a forlorn lost child
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- desolate after her brother's death
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