Lonesome

Definition: Lonesome

Lonesome

Adjective

1. Being the only one; single and isolated from others; "the lone doctor in the entire county"; "a lonesome pine"; "an only child"; "the sole heir"; "the sole example"; "a solitary instance of cowardice"; "a solitary speck in the sky".

2. Marked by dejection from being alone; "felt sad and lonely"; "the loneliest night of the week"; "lonesome when her husband is away"; "spent a lonesome hour in the bar".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lonesome" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Lonesome \Lone"some\, adjective. [Comparative Lonesomer; superlative Lonesomest.]. (references)

Synonyms: Lonesome

Seclusion Exclusion

Solitary; lonely, lonesome; isolated, single.

Unity

Lone, lonely, lonesome; desolate, dreary. insecable,

Crosswords: Lonesome

Well, we have a dog, and he was lonesome. That was the idea, wasn't it, Mummy (Another Thin Man; writing credit: Dashiell Hammett; Frances Goodrich)

You could get lonesome being that busy (Funny Girl; writing credit: Isobel Lennart;)

Well, here I am, all by my lonesome. And there ain't anybody gonna know (Platoon; writing credit: Oliver Stone)

Are you lonesome tonight, (Are You Lonesome Tonight?; performing artist: Elvis Presley)

That lonesome feeling (Neon Moon; performing artist: Brooks & Dunn)

Lonesome, lonely (Wasting My Time; performing artist: Default)

So Take Me Down That Lonesome Road (When The Night Comes; performing artist: Joe Cocker)

As we go down life's lonesome highway (Say You, Say Me; performing artist: Lionel Richie)

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. (references; author: unknown)

Trail of the Lonesome Pink (1974)

Lonesome Housewife (1973)

The Lonesome Cougar Charlie (1967)

Lonesome Ranger (1966)

Ride Lonesome (1959)

Cold Lonesome Wind (performing artist: Wayne Hancock)

Long Gone Lonesome Blues (performing artist: Hank Williams Sr.)

Lonesome Loser (performing artist: Little River Band)

LONESOME TOWN  (performing artist: Rick Nelson )

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Books

• Lonesome River (reference)

• Lonesome Traveler (reference)

• Night in the Lonesome October (reference)

• Tim Love on the Lonesome Dove Trail (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• High Lonesome - The Story of Bluegrass Music (reference)

• Lonesome Dove (reference)

• Lonesome Dove Collection (Lonesome Dove/Streets of Laredo/Dead Man's Walk) (reference)

• Return to Lonesome Dove (reference)

• The Lonesome Dove Collection (Lonesome Dove/Streets of Laredo/Dead Man's Walk) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Lonesome Crow [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

• Lonesome Crowded West (reference)

• I'm a Lonesome Fugitive (reference)

• The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology (reference)

• Lonesome Roving Wolves (Songs & Ballads of the West) (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Milo Brant had a feeling that he was lonesome and afraid. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Look down, look down that lonesome road, before ... ". Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression using "lonesome": by one's lonesome. Additional references.

Ending with "lonesome": part-lonesome.

Albanian

i vetmuar (bleak, cloistered, desolate, eremitic, lone, lonely, out of the way, private, privy, recluse, remote, retired, secluded, solitary), i vetëm (all, alone, lone, one, only, single, Singleton, sole, solitary, solo, sporadic, unaccompanied, unique, very), i shkretë (blessed, desert, deserted, desolate, devoid of inhabitants, inhospitable, lifeless, lonely, poor, waste, wild). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهجور (abandoned, antiquated, archaic, archaism, bygone, derelict, deserted, desolate, disused, forlorn, forsaken, in disuse, lonely, obsolete, outdated, outmoded, solitary, unfrequented), ‏منعزل (bleak, downcast, hideaway, insulate, isolated, lone, lonely, private, quiet, recluse, retired, secluded, separate, separated, shy, solitary, withdrawn), ‏موقع في النفس الوحشة, ‏وحيد (alone, exclusive, lone, one, one and only, only, private, single, solitary, unique), ‏شاعرة بالوحشة والوحدة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

унил (chap-fallen, crestfallen, dejected, down, hipped, low, low-spirited, mopish, subdued, vapory, vapoury), самотен (desolate, friendless, lone, lonely, lorn, secluded, single, solitary, unfriended), тъжен (bleak, cheerless, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, dull, dusky, elegiac, gloomy, heavy, joyless, lugubrious, melancholy, minor, mirthless, mournful, pensive, plaintive, sad, sick, sickly, sorrowful, tristful, wan, wistful, woebegone, woeful). (various references)

Chinese 

幽静, 寞 (nightmare, start in sleep), 寥 (empty, very few), 寂寞 (lonely), 寂 . (various references)

Czech

osamìlý (lone, lonely, quiet, solitary). (various references)

French

solitaire (lone, lonely). (various references)

German

einsam (alone, desert, empty, fantastic, forlorn, isolated, lone, lonely, lonesom, lonesomely, private, secluded, single handed, solitarily, solitary, unfrequented), allein (alon, alone, but, by itself, by oneself, exclusively, however, just, lonely, on its own, on smb.'s own, only, private, reclusive, single handed, sole, solely, solitary, unaccompanied, unaided, unassisted, unescorted). (various references)

Greek 

έρημοσ (bleak, derelict, desert, desolate, forlorn, waste, wilderness), μονήρησ (lonely, retort, solitary), μοναχικός (lone, solitary), θλιμένοσ λόγω μοναξιάσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

גלמוד (barren, desolate, forlorn, lonely, solitary, sterile). (various references)

Hungarian

magányos (be lonely, cloistered, desolate, friendless, lone, lonely, recluse, remote, secluded, segregate, sequestered, solitary), társtalan (friendless, solitary), egyedülálló (alone, incomparable, lone, lonely, matchless, peerless, single, singular, unequaled, unique, unmatched). (various references)

Indonesian

kesepian (loneliness). (various references)

Italian

solo (alone, just, lone, lonely, mere, only, single, sole, solidly, solitary, unaccompanied, unique, very). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

寂しい (desolate, lonely, solitary). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さびしい (desolate, lonely, solitary), さみしい (desolate, lonely, solitary), こころさびしい (lonely), りょうりょうたる (few, rare), らくばくたる (desolate, dreary). (various references)

Korean 

쓸쓸한. (various references)

Norwegian

ensom (dreary, gaunt, immense, lonely, remote). (various references)

Pig Latin

onesomelay.(various references)

Portuguese

triste (bleak, blue, broken-hearted, cheerless, dark, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dreary, dumpish, dumpy, gaunt, gloomily, gray, grey, joyless, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, misty, moody, mopish, mourning, pained, painful, pensive, piteous, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sore, sorrowful, sorry, tearful, tristful, unhappy, upset), solitário (alone, cloistered, desolate, lone, lonely, lorn, recluse, secluded, sole, solitaire, solitary, unfrequented, wild), só (alone, barely, but, cloistered, exclusively, just, lone, lonely, lorn, mere, only, single, sole, solitary), isolado (alone, cloistered, cloistral, insulator, isolated, lone, particular, recluse, secluded, separate, sequestered, sole, solitary, special, sporadic, straggling, strayed). (various references)

Romanian

singur (a, alone, by, by oneself, herself, himself, isolated, itself, lone, lonely, mateless, naked, only, single, sole, solely, solitary, solo, yourself, yourselves), izolat (apart, detached, isolated, lonely, out of the way, private, remote, removed, retired, scattered, secluded, seclusive, segregate, separate, sequestered, solitary, unfrequented), cuprins de dor. (various references)

Russian 

вызывающий тоску, одиноко одинокий (lonely). (various references)

Scottish

uaigneach (melancholy, secret), tiamhaidh (dismal, eerie, gloomy, melancholy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

usamljen (forlorn, friendless, lone, lonely, lorn, solitary, unfrequented), samotan (cloistral, lone, unfrequented). (various references)

Spanish

solitario (alone, desolate, isolated, lone, lonely, obscure, patience, recluse, seclusive, solitaire, solitary). (various references)

Swedish

enslig (lone, lonely, secluded, solitary), ensam (alone, desolate, lone, lonely, lorn, on one's own, only, private, single handed, singly, sole, solely, solitary, unaided, unattended). (various references)

Thai

หงอยเหงา. (various references)

Turkish

yapayalnız (all alone, lonely, solitarily), yalnız (alone, by yourself, exclusively, isolated, just, lone, lonely, merely, on one's tod, only, private, single handed, singly, sole, solitarily, solitary, unaccompanied, unattended). (various references)

Ukrainian

усамітнений (cloistered, secluded, sequestered, withdrawn), одинокий (alone). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vắng vẻ (desert, deserted, lonely, solitary), hiu quạnh cô đơn (lonely), cô độc (lonely, solitary), bơ vơ (desolate, helpless, lone, lonely). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "lonesome": lonesomely, lonesomeness, lonesomenesses, lonesomes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lonesome" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Honesom, luanisone, onesimos, Onesimus. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: oenomels.

-1 letter: oenomel, someone.

-2 letters: lemons, leones, loosen, melons, osmole, solemn.

-3 letters: enols, lemon, lenes, lenos, lense, leone, looms, loons, loose, melon, mense, mesne, meson, moles, monos, mools, moons, moose, neems, noels, nolos, nomes, nomos, noose, oleos, omens, osmol, semen, snool, solon.

-4 letters: eels, elms, else, emes, enol, eons, lees, leno, lens, lone, loom, loon, loos.

+1 letter: lonesomes, melodeons, monostele.

+2 letters: lonesomely, melanosome, menologies, monosteles, nucleosome, somnolence.

+3 letters: emotionless, holoenzymes, melanosomes, mellophones, mesocyclone, monostelies, myelogenous, nucleosomes, somnolences, teleonomies, unwholesome.

+4 letters: demonologies, enterostomal, entomologies, enzymologies, gloominesses, lampooneries, lonesomeness, longshoremen, longsomeness, melanophores, mesocyclones, nematologies, nonemployees, numerologies, semicolonies, toilsomeness.

+5 letters: ceremoniously, conglomerates, emotionalizes, emotionlessly, endotheliomas, entomophilies, homogeneously, loathsomeness, melodiousness, metallophones, mononucleoses, nonpetroleums, prolegomenous, salmonelloses, sedimentology, terminologies, unwholesomely, wholesomeness.