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lonesome

/ˈloʊnsəm/ adjective C1
  1. Unhappy due to being alone; lonely.
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It was a lonesome flat—something like the A sharp way down at the left-hand end of the keyboard.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 1 · C1
It was a very lonesome place.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 51 · C1
The shore road was “woodsy and wild and lonesome.” On the right hand, scrub firs, their spirits quite unbroken by long years of tussle with the gulf winds, grew thickly.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 54 · C1
Of course, it’s rather lonesome.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 72 · C1

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