Emily Dickinson Lexicon

lonesome, adj. [see lone, adj.]

1. Isolated; secluded from society; lacking familiar associations; far removed from ordinary life.
2. Empty; void.
3. Unfrequented; [fig.] spooky; scary; eerie; ghostly; haunted.
4. Solemn; sober; somber; sublime; hauntingly beautiful.
5. Sad; mournful; plaintive; woeful; gloomy; funereal.
6. Singular; select; elite; peculiar; uncommon.
7. Solitary; lonely; eremitic.
8. Single; individual; solo.
9. Ostracized; shunned; excluded; subject to persecution.