Thesaurus
lonesome
Synonyms and Antonyms of lonesome
- a lonesome kitten left at the pound
- a lonesome cypress tree on a rocky, windswept point
cloistered, disassociated, hermetic (also hermetical), insulated, isolate, isolated, remote, retired, secluded, withdrawn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
- The playground seems especially lonesome now that there are no young children in the neighborhood.
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), lonely, 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 lonesome
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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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