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adjective
Idiom1.
depressed or sad because of the lack of friends, companionship, etc.; lonely: to feel lonesome.
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attended with or causing such a state or feeling: a lonesome evening at home.
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lonely or deserted in situation; remote, desolate, or isolated: a lonesome road.
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on/by one's lonesome, Informal. alone: She went walking by her lonesome. Also, Scot., by one's lane.
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Lonesomeness
is always a great word to know.
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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| lonesome (ˈləʊnsəm) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | chiefly (US), (Canadian) another word for lonely |
| —n | |
| 2. | informal on one's lonesome, by one's lonesome on one's own |
| 'lonesomely | |
| —adv | |
| 'lonesomeness | |
| —n | |
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