lonesome

/ˈlōn(t)-səm/

adjective

  1. sad or dejected as a result of lack of companionship or separation from others

  2. causing a feeling of loneliness

  3. remote, unfrequented

don't be lonesome while we are gone

the empty house seemed so lonesome

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

noun

  1. self

sat all by his lonesome

idiom

  1. without anyone else : entirely, alone

He sat by his lonesome at the dinner table.