lonesome

comparative more lonesome · superlative most lonesome · alternative Scotland lanesome

1. Unhappy due to being alone; lonely.

   'Where'er the sun shakes out his spears, and the lonesome waters mirror up the moon, where'er storms roll [...] there shall thy power pass and thy dominion find a home.'

   1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

plural lonesomes · alternative Scotland lanesome

1. informalOneself alone.

   I sat and watched the cars pass all by my lonesome.