Definitions for loner

loner lon·er

Spelling: [loh-ner]
IPA: /ˈloʊ nər/

Loner is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in loner (elnor).

Definitions for loner

noun

  1. a person who is or prefers to be alone, especially one who avoids the company of others:

adjective

  1. being alone; without company or accompaniment; solitary; unaccompanied:
  2. standing by itself or apart; isolated:
  3. sole; single; only:
  4. unfrequented.
  5. without companionship; lonesome; lonely.
  6. unmarried or widowed.

Origin of loner

First recorded in 1945-50; lone + -er1

Examples for loner

Marlowe was a loner, a private eye in a one-man operation in Los Angeles during the '30s, '40s, and '50s.

She hastened to the spring, but fountain and pitcher were no loner there.

From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of loner descent.

She remained a loner in every sense of the word for most of her political career.

The missing leg is only the most obvious sign that Strike is damaged goods, a loner wounded by life long before he went overseas.

Nor was Oswald an irrational, discontented Dostoyevskian loner, as some depicted him.

It was not loner however until I saw him go into the dance and begin to drink.

It could not have been loner alight: since but little of the lard was consumed.

He had been a loner for so many years that he found a certain inverse pleasure in following someone else.

Fatherless and emotionally needy, du Pont was a loner who sought companionship and adoration—usually at great financial cost.

Word Value for loner
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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