There they sat, with their "heads bowed down like the loonsome bulrush," as Uncle Billy poetically expressed it, weeping over their sins, as he thought, but the wicked creatures were laughing.
Source: wiktionary
Loonsome
Synonyms for "loonsome"
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
etymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
3 entriesSample sentences
8 total sentences available.
"Jack he ha' gart ta be about his wark, an' Aggie hare ha' gart har chillern ta see arter, an' sometimes I fare sa loonsome, hare, all alooan . . . wi' Gord."
Source: wiktionary
Oh, most o' Pa's yarnin's was jus' musey duck fartin' an'in his loonsome old age he even b'liefed Meronym the Prescient was his presh b'loved Sonmi, yay, he 'sisted it, he said he knowed it all by birthmarks an' comets'n'all.
Source: wiktionary
Hi everyone, Had a lovlerley ubberley weekend-filled with much loonsome dancing and merriment.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 8 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.