lone

[ lohn ]
/ loʊn /

adjective

being alone; without company or accompaniment; solitary; unaccompanied: a lone traveler.
standing by itself or apart; isolated: a lone house in the valley.
sole; single; only: That company constitutes our lone competitor in the field.
without companionship; lonesome; lonely.
unmarried or widowed.

Origin of lone

1325–75; Middle English; aphetic var of alone, used attributively

SYNONYMS FOR lone

2 separate, separated, secluded.

synonym study for lone

1. See alone.

OTHER WORDS FROM lone

lone·ness, noun

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH lone

loan lone

Example sentences from the Web for loneness

  • The one human thing, with the goblins before me—Alone—in a loneness so ghastly—Alone!

  • Then they were alone, and it was a loneness such as an eagle might feel when it held itself poised high in the curve of blue.

    The Lost Prince |Frances Hodgson Burnett

British Dictionary definitions for loneness

lone
/ (ləʊn) /

adjective (prenominal)

unaccompanied; solitary
single or isolated a lone house
a literary word for lonely
unmarried or widowed

Derived forms of lone

loneness, noun

Word Origin for lone

C14: from the mistaken division of alone into a lone