noun
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One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret, hermit or recluse.
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Solitary confinement.
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The prisoners who started the riot were moved to solitary.
adjective
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Living or being by oneself; alone; having no companion present
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Performed, passed, or endured alone
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a solitary journey
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Not much visited or frequented; remote from society
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a solitary residence or place
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Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted
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the solitary desert
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Gloomy; dismal, because of not being inhabited.
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Single; individual; sole.
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a solitary example
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Not associated with others of the same kind.
Examples of solitary in a Sentence
He had noticed a solitary tree ahead of him.
The loon retires to solitary ponds to spend it.
She gazed down at the solitary diamond on her engagement ring.
It has a solitary representative in North America.
But for my part, I preferred the solitary dwelling.
It lives in the most solitary woods, especially in the eastern hills.
The gates and shops were all closed, only here and there round the taverns solitary shouts or drunken songs could be heard.
A few specimens of solitary goose have been procured, but the bird is rarely met with.
But for the most part it is as solitary where I live as on the prairies.
Awed by the power she had over him, she began to understand the extent of his solitary existence for the millennia of his life.
A solitary tallow candle burned in the anteroom.
Outside the breeding season this is a mainly solitary bird.
Most of the older buildings have made way for factories, so that the town-hall, dating from 1551, is an almost solitary witness to the town's medieval prosperity.
Dean usually devoted the solitary time behind the wheel to sorting out details of a case, putting little facts in their slots like letters in a country post office.
A solitary fugitive, he crossed the Turkish frontier.
This generally involves solitary confinement of the most rigorous nature, and, as little is done to occupy the mind, the criminal not infrequently becomes insane.
Unwilling to disturb his solitary mood, Jenn leaned back against a pillar and watched.
At that time the Syrians and Antiochenes were the solitary champions of the observance of the fourteenth day.
The name (Sp. "tall tree") was derived from a solitary redwood-tree standing in the outskirts of the city.
This, however, was the solitary success secured by the I.
But this was a solitary exception.
This is a mostly solitary bird which is primarily ground feeding.
It is a plant of tall habit, with uncut leaves and solitary purple flowers of beautiful glossy texture.
The solitary lifestyle - or, at least, the unattached one - has been celebrated by many poets of both sexes.
The old bulls are very generally solitary for a considerable portion of the year, but return to the herds during the pairing season.
Vico has been generally described as a solitary soul, out of harmony with the spirit of his time and often directly opposed to it.
The solitary and desolate frontier life became now more dreary than ever; he flung himself into politics the only outside resource open to him, and his long and eventful public career began.
The frigates made an attempt to get off on the 24th of August, but only the " Justice," a solitary survivor of the squadron which fought at the Nile, reached Toulon.
Among his numerous publications are The Light Invisible, By What Authority?, The King's Achievement, Richard Raynal, Solitary, The Queen's Tragedy, The Sentimentalists, Lord of the World.
Even as a boy he had intense pleasure in reading St Thomas Aquinas and the Arab commentators of Aristotle, was skilled in the subtleties of the schools, wrote verses, studied music and design, and, avoiding society, loved solitary rambles on the banks of the Po.
His solitary life at Versailles lasted nearly a year.
Great numbers of monks, each in solitary cell, spent lonely lives, scorched by the sun, ill-clad and scantily fed, pondering on portions of Scripture or copying MSS.
Of birds very few are indigenous; the jackdaw, blue solitary thrush, spectacled warbler, the robin, kestrel and the herring-gull.
In the Eumenidae or solitary wasps the female sex is undifferentiated, and the foot claws are toothed.
This was the solitary gain of the whole operation.
According to a 12th-century chronicle of one of the monks, the name Ramsey is derived from the words "ram," referripg to the tradition of a solitary ram having taken up its abode here, and "ey" meaning an island.
Through the succeeding ages the Ginkgoales were represented by numerous forms, which gradually became more restricted in their distribution and fewer in number during the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods, terminating at the present day in one solitary survivor.
Schizoid personalities are introverted, withdrawn, solitary, emotionally cold, and distant.
Introverts simply prefer solitary to social activities but do not fear social encounters as shy people do, while extroverts prefer social to solitary activities.
People who have spent a lot of time single naturally tend to think in more solitary terms than coupled people.
Multiple fetuses appear to develop at the same speed as a solitary fetus during the first stages.
However, with all the bells and whistles of our most loved technologies, many of these items have caused us to become very solitary.
By its very nature, writing is solitary work.
The animal is a solitary polyp bearing a great number of medusa-buds.
Amongst palms the Corypheae are represented by Sabal and Thrinax, and there is a solitary Za,nza amongst Cycads.
His temper was irritable, his habits penurious and solitary.
The flowers, which are solitary, or rarely in pairs, at the end of slender axillary flower-stalks, are very irregular in form, with five sepals prolonged at the base, and five petals, the lowest one larger than the others and with a spur, in which collects the honey secreted by the spurs of the two adjoining stamens.
The female flowers are solitary or few in number, and borne on Short terminal spikes of the present season's growth.
The solitary ovule springs erect from the base of the ovarian cavity.
Young Ebenezer, although one of a large family, had a solitary and rather morbid childhood.