alone

/ə-ˈlōn/

Middle English al-one, alone, allone, from al, all + one

adjective

  1. separated from others : isolated

  2. exclusive of anyone or anything else : only

  3. considered without reference to any other

was alone in the office

alone solitary lonely lonesome lone forlorn desolate mean isolated from others. alone stresses the objective fact of being by oneself with slighter notion of emotional involvement than most of the remaining terms. solitary may indicate isolation as a chosen course

adverb

  1. solely, exclusively

  2. without aid or support

The blame is mine alone.

conjunction

  1. to say nothing of : not to mention —used especially to emphasize the improbability of a contrasting example