Dictionary entry

Lonesome

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Lone″some (?), a. [Compar.Lonesomer (?); superl.Lonesomest.] 1. Secluded from society; not frequented by human beings; solitary.

Like one that on a lonesome road

Doth walk in fear and dread. Coleridge.

2. Conscious of, and somewhat depressed by, solitude; as, to feel lonesome.

— Lone″some‐ly, adv. — Lone″some‐ness, n.