adjective
definition
Unhappy because of feeling isolated from contact with other people.
definition
(of a place or time) Unfrequented by people; desolate.
definition
(of a person) Without companions; solitary.
Examples of lonely in a Sentence
It gets lonely out there all by myself.
It gets lonely out here.
Their house was lonely, and a little scary without them.
Strange, it had never seemed lonely here before.
She stared into the pool, remembering a lonely childhood.
I hope she is not lonely and unhappy.
You'll get lonely here alone.
Tonight would be another lonely night in her apartment.
Are you very lonely and sad now?
Perhaps I shall hear a solitary loon laugh as he dives and plumes himself, or shall see a lonely fisher in his boat, like a floating leaf, beholding his form reflected in the waves, where lately a hundred men securely labored.
It's so lonely here without you.
She was simply lonely out there and he was good company - the only company.
Elizabeth Cade was a lonely woman - lonely and unhappy.
Were you lonely when Katie was there?
You just seemed lonely - like something was missing in your life.
She was feeling rejected and he was lonely and experienced.
Perhaps I should secure some company for my lonely hours, once I travel.
You wouldn't be so lonely there.
At this time of day, the best option would be to go to Stanton Street where the expensive boutiques were, and hope to find a lonely, rich wife getting back at her husband by spending his money.
The house has been unbearably lonely without you.
He was a lonely child, about your age.
It is a lonely lake, situated in extremely wild surroundings at a height of 1153 ft.
But "on the holiest soil of history, he gave his people a fatherland"; and Fulcher of Chartres, his chaplain, who paints at the beginning of Baldwin's reign the terrors of the lonely band of Christians in the midst of their foes, can celebrate at the end the formation of a new nation in the East (qui fuimus occidentales, nunc facti sumus orientales) - an achievement which, so far as it was the work of any one man, was the work of Baldwin I.
Increasing religious fervour, aided by persecution, drove them farther and farther away from the abodes of men into mountain solitudes or lonely deserts.
Maybe someone out there has a lonely guinea pig that needs a friend too.
I also think he's a very lonely man.
That is why he says he was a lonely outcast, forced to abide in foreign lands.
The apartment was lonely without Brandon, even with Julia and Rachel there.
But if this is because you're lonely . . .
I hardly minded the cold and lonely walk back after evening prayers demanded my love's return.
When did the house get so empty - so lonely?
Suddenly Dean felt incredibly lonely.
No more would she crawl between icy sheets and shiver until her own body heat warmed them - or wake to a cold lonely house.
And when you're home alone... without any hope of children, are you lonely?
Had anyone asked if she was lonely, she would have said no.
It would be cold down there in that old house? cold and lonely.
As an only child growing up with aging parents and no relatives, life had often been lonely.
If he thought she would be unfaithful so that she could have the baby she always wanted, then why wouldn't he think she would be unfaithful because she was lonely?
How could they sleep together like this and feel so lonely?
The room was quiet — lonely.
What kind of life would it be, alone and lonely?
Her heart still hurt for her brother, whose road was dark and lonely.
Didn't he notice you were lonely?
One word crossed his mind – lonely.
Or was she merely getting that lonely?
Now don't take up with some smooth talking country boy just because you're lonely.
Oh, he doesn't give me a chance to get lonely.
Their summits stand out gaunt and lonely in an unbroken solitude.
As implied by its name, which may be translated " the narrow places," Uzhitse is built in a narrow and lonely glen amongst the south-western moun t Perhaps a mistake or an abbreviation for Aram.
From the lonely life he led, and still more from the extreme profundity of his philosophy and his contempt for mankind in general, he was called the "Dark Philosopher" (6 o-Komewos), or the "Weeping Philosopher," in contrast to Democritus, the "Laughing Philosopher."