The child is lonesome for its mother.
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Lonesome
//ˈləʊnsəm//
Synonyms for "lonesome" (56 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (28)
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6 entriesderived from
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
1 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
22 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- самотен adj (unhappy due to being alone)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 寂寞 adj (unhappy due to being alone)
Finnish
1 entries- yksinäinen adj (unhappy due to being alone)
French
1 entries- solitaire adj (unhappy due to being alone)
Galician
1 entries- señardoso adj (unhappy due to being alone)
German
1 entries- einsam adj (unhappy due to being alone)
Italian
1 entries- solitario adj (unhappy due to being alone)
Japanese
1 entries- 寂しい adj (unhappy due to being alone)
Latin
1 entries- sōlitārius adj (unhappy due to being alone)
Malay
2 entries- sepi adj (unhappy due to being alone)
- sunyi adj (unhappy due to being alone)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- ensom adj (unhappy due to being alone)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- یالڭز adj (unhappy due to being alone)
Polish
1 entries- samotny adj (unhappy due to being alone)
Portuguese
1 entries- solitário adj (unhappy due to being alone)
Russian
1 entries- одино́кий adj (unhappy due to being alone)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- aonaranach adj (unhappy due to being alone)
- uaigneach adj (unhappy due to being alone)
Spanish
3 entries- aislado adj (unhappy due to being alone)
- solitario adj (unhappy due to being alone)
- solo adj (unhappy due to being alone)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- gan-gan adj (unhappy due to being alone)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
She looks lonesome.
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You feel lonesome, don't you?
Source: tatoeba (385177)
As I stood upon the bluff before my cottage on that clear cold night in the early part of March, 1886, the noble Hudson flowing like the grey and silent spectre of a dead river below me, I felt again the strange, compelling influence of the mighty god of war, my beloved Mars, which for ten long and lonesome years I had implored with outstretched arms to carry me back to my lost love.
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