lonely

adj

Etymology: From lone + -ly, or from an apheretic shortening of alonely. See lone.

1. Unhappy due to feeling isolated from contact with other people.

   “At last My love has come along My lonely days are over And life is like a song”

   “Well, since my baby left me, Well, I found a new place to dwell. Well, it's down at the end of Lonely Street At Heartbreak Hotel. Where I'll be, I'll be so lonely, baby Well, I'm so lonely I'll be so lonely, I could die.”

2. Unfrequented by people; desolate.

   “Only to those to whom in lonely passes in the night the gods have spoken, leaning through the stars, to those that have heard the voices of the gods above the morning or seen Their faces bending above the sea, only to those hath it been given to see Sardathrion, to stand where her pinnacles gathered together in the night fresh from the dreams of gods.”

   “[…] San Sebastian Church was desolate in the courtyard; emptier, lonelier inside with its pews stretched out like fallen pylons varnished by dolorous residue. From each candlelit nook stared in stony despair one after another saint, regal and rueful: proffering forgiveness, peace, a todo.”

3. Without companions; solitary.

   “By a lone wall a lonelier column rears.”