alone vs lonely
Definitions
adjective
- isolated from others
- exclusive of anyone or anything else
- radically distinctive and without equal
- lacking companions or companionship
adverb
- without any others being included or involved
- without anybody else or anything else
Examples
I'm just a little bit caught in the middle. Life is a maze and love is a riddle, I don't know where to go, can't do it alone.
It's not because I'm worried about what they might think, or anything ridiculous like that, it's because in a lot of cases this material was intended for me alone - either through an oral tradition or as a gnostic revelation from the spirits.
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Definitions
adjective
- marked by dejection from being alone
- devoid of creatures
- characterized by or preferring solitude
- lacking companions or companionship
Examples
She distinguished the undrawing of iron bars, and then the countenance of Spalatro at her door, before she had a clear remembrance of her situation — that she was a prisoner in a house on a lonely shore, and that this man was her jailor.
These are all lonely, arguably damaged people, and once you get past the silliness it's all rather crushingly sad.
That she is also lonely and unloved, except by her arthritic mother, is a nice ironic counterpoint.
