lonesome
/ˈloʊnsəm/ noun C2- Oneself alone. · I sat and watched the cars pass all by my lonesome.
Plural lonesomes
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There were fewer houses and fewer fruit trees, and the farther they went the more dismal and lonesome the country became.
Ye see, when I got up to the door it was so still and so lonesome, that I thought I’d be none the worse for some one with me.
It was a very lonesome place.
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.
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