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loneliness

/lohn-lee/US // ˈloʊn li //UK // (ˈləʊnlɪ) //

孤独,寂寞,孤单,孤独感

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    lone·li·er, lone·li·est.

    • : affected with, characterized by, or causing a depressing feeling of being alone; lonesome.
    • : destitute of sympathetic or friendly companionship, intercourse, support, etc.: a lonely exile.
    • : lone; solitary; without company; companionless.
    • : remote from places of human habitation; desolate; unfrequented; bleak: a lonely road.
    • : standing apart; isolated: a lonely tower.

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Examples

  • Horniness packs side-by-side by with a deeper loneliness along the walls of The Park.

  • She spent almost two years in a nursing home – two years of loneliness she would like to forget.

  • It suggests that love and loneliness are not separate things.

  • Should she leave her husband and endure loneliness or tolerate his dalliance and keep a companion for old age?

  • These include tips on how to avoid boredom, loneliness, frustration, and anxiety.

  • He remembered standing once before on this very spot, that foreboding of coming loneliness so strangely in his heart.

  • At first I almost perished with loneliness, but now that I have a few acquaintances here I am enjoying it.

  • It was the starving sense of loneliness, the aching sense of loss, the yearning and the vain desire that made it seem so long.

  • Not too big for the fiery old heart that trouble and toil and hunger and loneliness had never quenched.

  • And he was a little sorry for himself and the loneliness which, he felt, would be his hereafter; but that was by the way.