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词汇 lonely
释义 lonely
adjective
uk /ˈləʊn.li/ us /ˈloʊn.li/
B1
unhappy because you are not with other people: 孤独的,寂寞的
She gets lonely now that all the kids have left home.现在孩子们都离开了家,她感到有些孤独。
the lonely life of a widower鳏夫寂寞的生活
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

feeling sad and alone
lonelyI've been lonely since my friends moved away.
lonesomeUSI'm feeling lonesome.
isolatedI wouldn't like living out in the country - I'd feel isolated from the rest of the world.
forlornThe characters, a flighty heiress and her forlorn suitor, are a delight.
lornHe's a lone, lorn creature.
desolateAfter the market crash, desolate financiers left the field.
B2
A lonely place is a long way from where people live: 孤独的,孤零零的,远离人群的
a lonely stretch of Arizona highway亚利桑那一段荒凉的公路
Da Silva plays a bright, lonely student from New York, adrift in small-town Arizona.达席尔瓦饰演的角色是一个才华横溢的学生,离开纽约孤身漂泊在偏僻的亚利桑那州。
He couldn't bear to think of the lonely year ahead.今后一年要一个人孤零零地度过,他一想到这个就受不了。
He felt lonely and far from home.他觉得自己孤独寂寞,远离家乡。
I know what it's like to be lonely, so I do feel for her.我知道孤独是什么感觉,所以我真的很同情她。
You can't complain of being lonely when you don't make any effort to meet people.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feeling sad and unhappy
a long faceidiom
abjection
angsty
be cut upidiom
be down in the mouthidiom
be in a funkidiom
dismayed
displeased
dissatisfied
distraught
distressed
lachrymose
lonesome
lovelorn
lovesick
wistful
wistfully
woe
woe is meidiom
woebegone

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Alone
Distant in space and time

Grammar



Alone, lonely, or lonesome?
Alone is an adjective and an adverb meaning that no other person is with you. When we use alone as an adjective, it never comes before the noun (predicative adjective): …

Alone or lonely?
Alone is an adjective and an adverb meaning that no other person is with you. When we use alone as an adjective, it never comes before the noun (predicative adjective): …

Lonesome
In American English, lonesome means the same as lonely: …

Idiom


lonely hearts

lonely | American Dictionary


lonely
adjective
us/ˈloʊn·li/
(of someone) feeling sad because you are alone, or (of something) causing this feeling:
a lonely child
my lonely room
A lonely place has no people, buildings, etc.:
a lonely and deserted road

loneliness


noun[ U ]us/ˈloʊn·li·nəs/
Some elderly people live in isolation and loneliness.

Examples of lonely


lonely
For instance, people feeling lonely do not necessarily benefit from antidepressants or from people visiting them.
Apart from physical dangers (falls, scalds, and so on), being ' at home ' may mean being lonely, isolated and afraid.
However, she describes her life as confined, isolated and lonely.
Led to a lonely painful death where she would not accept even my help.
He spends much time chatting in the street and is never lonely.
To them it meant having someone to look after them in their old age and never having to be lonely.
The elderly are particularly vulnerable because many are lonely, depressed and suffer from sleeplessness.
Her work provides valuable insight into why such clubs are often ineffective in helping lonely people form satisfying relationships.
They had little to occupy themselves during the days, weeks, or sometimes months they spent on these lonely outposts of the colonies.
There is power in the presence of the therapist in accompanying the patient on this too often lonely path.
In contrast, under appropriate conditions in the industrial organization perspective, lonely firms have the market to themselves.
These comments suggest that people, including other older people, may perceive that a presumed ' lonely or withdrawn ' elder has chosen to be that way.
If lonely, he must more and more look elsewhere than to his descendants to provide companionship and sociability.
Similarly, of the 8.6% defined as often lonely, 50% were classified as isolated.
All that is left is a lonely monitor on a table and a connecting cable.
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