Definitions for loners

loners lon·er

Spelling: [loh-ner]
IPA: /ˈloʊ nər/

Loners is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in loners (elnors).

Definitions for loners

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 loners

First recorded in 1945-50; lone + -er1

Examples for loners

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for loners
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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