lonely

adj

1. Unhappy due to feeling isolated from contact with other people.

   “At last My love has come along My lonely days are over And life is like a song”

   “Well, since my baby left me, Well, I found a new place to dwell. Well, it's down at the end of Lonely Street At Heartbreak Hotel. Where I'll be, I'll be so lonely, baby Well, I'm so lonely I'll be so lonely, I could die.”

   “LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets god-awful cold in the winter but there’s a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.”

   “You were lonely for a man I said, "Take me as I am" 'Cause you might enjoy some madness for a while”

   “From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.”

2. Unfrequented by people; desolate.

   “Only to those to whom in lonely passes in the night the gods have spoken, leaning through the stars, to those that have heard the voices of the gods above the morning or seen Their faces bending above the sea, only to those hath it been given to see Sardathrion, to stand where her pinnacles gathered together in the night fresh from the dreams of gods.”

   “[…] San Sebastian Church was desolate in the courtyard; emptier, lonelier inside with its pews stretched out like fallen pylons varnished by dolorous residue. From each candlelit nook stared in stony despair one after another saint, regal and rueful: proffering forgiveness, peace, a todo.”

3. Without companions; solitary.

   “By a lone wall a lonelier column rears.”