MEANING
1. Feeling lonely or missing companionship.
2. Isolated, quiet, or rarely visited.
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- feel lonesome
- lonesome evening
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She felt lonesome after the visitors left.
The song recalled a lonesome evening.
He admitted that the journey had become lonesome.
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- lonesome
Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Forms: More lonesome; most lonesome, normally. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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