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solitary
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s?l?t??i/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s?l?t?i/
Etymology 1
From Middle English [Term?], borrowed from Latin s?lit?rius.
Noun
solitary (countable and uncountable, plural solitaries)
- (countable) One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret, hermit or recluse.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 24]:
- He brooded and intrigued fantastically. He was becoming one of the big-time solitaries. And he wasn't meant to be a solitary. He was meant to be in active life, a social creature.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 24]:
- (uncountable) Solitary confinement.
- The prisoners who started the riot were moved to solitary.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:recluse
Translations
Adjective
solitary (not comparable)
- Living or being by oneself; alone; having no companion present
- Performed, passed, or endured alone
- Not much visited or frequented; remote from society
- Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted
- 1769, Bible (King James Version), Lamentations 1.1
- How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people!
- 1769, Bible (King James Version), Lamentations 1.1
- gloomy; dismal, because of not being inhabited.
- Single; individual; sole.
- (botany) Not associated with others of the same kind.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
solitary
- (archaic) The Rodrigues solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria), an extinct flightless bird.
Anagrams
- royalist
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friendless
English
Etymology
From Middle English frendles, from Old English fr?ondl?as; equivalent to friend +? -less.
Adjective
friendless (not comparable)
- Without friends (without a friend).
- The friendless girl cries frequently.
Antonyms
- enemyless
Derived terms
- friendlessly
- friendlessness
Translations
See also
- enemylessness
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