adjective (especially AmE)
1 unhappy because you are alone and do not want to be or because you have no friends:
I felt so lonesome after he left.
2 (of a place) where not many people go; a long way from where people live:
a lonesome road -< ALONE
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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 lonesome is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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