adjective (lonelier, loneliest)
1 unhappy because you have no friends or people to talk to:
She lives alone and often feels lonely. * As I didn't speak the language I grew lonelier and lonelier.
2 (of a situation or period of time) sad and spent alone:
all those lonely nights at home watching TV
3 [onlybeforenoun] (of places) where only a few people ever come or visit:
a lonely beach / farmhouse / road -< ALONE
loneliness noun [U]:
a period of loneliness in his life
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for lonely is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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