Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Lonesome
lonesome, adj. [see lone, adj.]
- Isolated; secluded from society; lacking familiar associations; far removed from ordinary life.
- Empty; void.
- Unfrequented; [fig.] spooky; scary; eerie; ghostly; haunted.
- Solemn; sober; somber; sublime; hauntingly beautiful.
- Sad; mournful; plaintive; woeful; gloomy; funereal.
- Singular; select; elite; peculiar; uncommon.
- Solitary; lonely; eremitic.
- Single; individual; solo.
- Ostracized; shunned; excluded; subject to persecution.
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