Definitions for lonely

lonely lone·ly

Spelling: [lohn-lee]
IPA: /ˈloʊn li/

Lonely is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in lonely (ellnoy).

Definitions for lonely

adjective

  1. affected with, characterized by, or causing a depressing feeling of being alone; lonesome.
  2. destitute of sympathetic or friendly companionship, intercourse, support, etc.:
  3. lone; solitary; without company; companionless.
  4. remote from places of human habitation; desolate; unfrequented; bleak:
  5. standing apart; isolated:

Origin of lonely

First recorded in 1600-10; lone + -ly

Examples for lonely

To be a woman suffering from a drinking problem in America is a lonely enterprise, defined by stigma and judgment.

I am almost as lonely as I was on some of those evenings in the old boarding-house.

The 289-page satire follows Morris Feldstein, a pharmaceutical salesman who gets seduced by a lonely receptionist.

If she had said she was lonely because the cherry bookcase was in Paris, he could not have been more bewildered.

I am a lonely man, my sweeting, and I must settle some day when the wars are over and done.

It is their virtue in life to be lonely, and none but the lonely man in tragedy may be great.

That is why Malloy is campaigning on a lonely stretch of barber shops and boxing gyms in New Haven a week before the election.

You can be lonely in a crowd, and I guess—is there any one around here you like better than me?

I found their melancholy inviting and I appreciated their contemplative, lonely world.

They want Marvin to be as mean and as lonely and as trashy as the characters he portrays.

Word Value for lonely
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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