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adj. marked by dejection from being alone; "felt sad and lonely"; "the loneliest night of the week"; "lonesome when her husband is away"; "spent a lonesome hour in the bar"

single, sole, separate, solitary, lonesome, only, alone, lone

adj. characterized by or preferring solitude; "a lone wolf"; "a lonely existence"; "a man of a solitary disposition"; " a solitary walk"

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single, sole, separate, solitary, lonely, lonesome, only, alone, lone

adj. characterized by or preferring solitude; "a lone wolf"; "a lonely existence"; "a man of a solitary disposition"; " a solitary walk"

unhappy, sad

adj. experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent; "unhappy over her departure"; "unhappy with her raise"; "after the argument they lapsed into an unhappy silence"; "had an unhappy time at school"; "the unhappy (or sad) news"; "he looks so sad"

gloomy, dismal, sorry

adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

black, dim, bleak

adj. offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"

desperate, forlorn

adj. "a hopeless attempt"

lonely, lonesome

adj. marked by dejection from being alone; "felt sad and lonely"; "the loneliest night of the week"; "lonesome when her husband is away"; "spent a lonesome hour in the bar"

individual, case-by-case, item-by-item

adj. separate and distinct from others of the same kind; "mark the individual pages"; "on a case-by-case basis"

discrete

adj. constituting a separate entity or part; "a government with three discrete divisions"; "on two distinct occasions"

sequestered, cloistered, secluded, reclusive

adj. providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic world of books"; "sat close together in the sequestered pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree"; "a secluded romantic spot"

individual, single, separate

adj. characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing; "an individual serving"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed"

barren, bare, desolate, bleak

adj. providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"

Synonyms (23)

amort

adj. utterly cast down

chapfallen, chopfallen, crestfallen, deflated

adj. brought low in spirit; "left us fatigued and deflated spiritually"

down, downcast, low, depressed, dispirited, downhearted, low-spirited

adj. low in spirits; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"

long-faced, gloomy, glum

adj. reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces"

antisocial, asocial

adj. hostile to or disruptive of normal standards of social behavior; "criminal behavior or conduct that violates the rights of other individuals is antisocial"; "crimes...and other asocial behavior"; "an antisocial deed"

asocial

adj. given to avoiding association with others; "bears are asocial secretive animals"; "are you asocial or do you just enjoy living in the Antarctic?"

solitary, eremitic

adj. characterized by ascetic solitude; "the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony"; "his hermitic existence"

recluse, reclusive, withdrawn

adj. withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life"

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