It's lonely in the saddle since the horse died.
Source: tatoeba (1694)
Lonely
//ˈləʊnli//
Synonyms for "lonely" (63 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (19)
Related words (31)
outcastreclusiveremoteremovedretiringrootlesssecludedseparateseparatedsinglesingle handedsingle-handedsolesolounabettedunaccompaniedunaidedunassistedunattendedunescorted
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Adjective(4 words)
Adjective(2 words)
How these synonyms differ
- desolate - 'Desolate' amplifies loneliness with emptiness, a desolate landscape, a desolate feeling. Everything that could bring comfort is absent.
- forlorn - 'Forlorn' is loneliness visible from the outside, a forlorn figure looks pitifully abandoned. There's a literary sadness to the word.
- isolated - 'Isolated' is the physical reality that can cause loneliness, cut off from others, whether by geography, circumstance, or choice.
- solitary - 'Solitary' is neutral or even positive, a solitary walk can be restorative. Loneliness always hurts; solitude doesn't have to.
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Synonyms
5 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
10 entriesderived from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entrieshas context
2 entrieshas first_subevent
1 entrieshas subevent
1 entriesrelated to
11 entriessimilar
5 entriesTranslations
128 translations across 61 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ἐρῆμος adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- ἐρῆμος adj (of place: desolate)
Arabic
2 entries- مُوحِش adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- وَحِيد adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Armenian
1 entries- միայնակ adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- fərd adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- tək adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- tənha adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- yalnız adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Bakhtiari
1 entries- تک adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Bashkir
1 entries- яңғыҙ adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Belarusian
2 entries- адзіно́кі adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- само́тны adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Bengali
1 entries- একাকী adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Bikol Central
1 entries- makapungaw adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Bulgarian
1 entries- само́тен adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Catalan
1 entries- solitari adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- بێکەس adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- تەنھا adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 寂寞 adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Czech
2 entries- osamělý adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- osamělý adj (of place: desolate)
Danish
1 entries- ensom adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Dutch
4 entries- afgelegen adj (of place: desolate)
- alleen adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- alleenig adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- allenig adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Esperanto
1 entries- soleca adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Estonian
1 entries- üksildane adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Faroese
4 entries- eina adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- einsamallur adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- einsamur adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- einsligur adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Finnish
1 entries- yksinäinen adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
French
3 entries- abandonné adj (of place: desolate)
- désert adj (of place: desolate)
- seul adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Galician
1 entries- solitario adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
German
4 entries- abgeschieden adj (of place: desolate)
- alleinig adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- einsam adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- einsam adj (of place: desolate)
Hebrew
1 entries- גַּלְמוּד adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Hindi
1 entries- अकेला adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Hungarian
1 entries- magányos adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Hunsrik
1 entries- eensam adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Icelandic
1 entries- einmana adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Italian
4 entries- desolato adj (of place: desolate)
- isolato adj (of place: desolate)
- malinconico adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- solitario adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Japanese
1 entries- 寂しい adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Khmer
4 entries- កំព្រាចិត្ត adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- វិជនដ្ឋាន adj (of place: desolate)
- អន្លង់អន្លោច adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- អបមាន adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Korean
3 entries- 고독하다 adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- 외롭다 adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- 황량하다 adj (of place: desolate)
Latin
1 entries- sōlitārius adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Lithuanian
1 entries- vienišas adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Macedonian
2 entries- осамен adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- самотен adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Malay
4 entries- keseorangan adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- kesepian adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- kesunyian adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- sepi adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Manchu
1 entries- ᠯᠣᡴᡩᠣᡥᠣᠨ adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Māori
1 entries- aroaroā adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- ensom adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- ensom adj (of place: desolate)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- einsam adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Old Prussian
1 entries- ainaseīlingis adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- یالڭز adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Persian
2 entries- بیکس adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- تنها adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- eensiedlich adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Polish
1 entries- samotny adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Portuguese
2 entries- isolado adj (of place: desolate)
- solitário adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Russian
4 entries- безлю́дный adj (of place: desolate)
- одино́кий adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- одино́кий adj (of place: desolate)
- уединённый adj (of place: desolate)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- aonaranach adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- aonaranach adj (of place: desolate)
- uaigneach adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- uaigneach adj (of place: desolate)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- òsāmljen adj (of place: desolate)
- ùsāmljen adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- ùsāmljen adj (of place: desolate)
- у̀са̄мљен adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Slovak
1 entries- osamelý adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Slovene
1 entries- osamljen adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Spanish
4 entries- aislado adj (of place: desolate)
- desierto adj (of place: desolate)
- desolado adj (of place: desolate)
- solitario adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Swedish
2 entries- ensam adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- öde adj (of place: desolate)
Tagalog
1 entries- nalalaiw adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Thai
2 entries- รกร้าง adj (of place: desolate)
- เหงา adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Tibetan
1 entries- གྲོགས་མེད་གཅིག་རྐྱང adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Turkish
4 entries- gariban adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- garip adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- kimsesiz adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- tenha adj (of place: desolate)
Ukrainian
2 entries- відлю́дний adj (of place: desolate)
- само́тній adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Unami
1 entries- sinkòmàlsi adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Vietnamese
3 entries- cô đơn adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- hoang tàn adj (of place: desolate)
- lẻ loi adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Yiddish
2 entries- איינזאַם adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
- עלנט adj (of person: unhappy by feeling isolated)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
What a lonely world it will be with you away!
Source: tatoeba (17885)
We were landed on a lonely island.
Source: tatoeba (23230)
It is lonely to live alone.
Source: tatoeba (27649)
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