solitary

Definitions

1. noun

   One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchorite, hermit or recluse.

   Examples

   • He brooded and intrigued fantastically. He was becoming one of the big-time solitaries. And he wasn't meant to be a solitary. He was meant to be in active life, a social creature.
   • Tilling my own grave to keep me level Jam another dragon down the hole Digging to the rhythm and the echo of a solitary siren One that pushes me along and leaves me so Desperate and ravenous
   ≈aloner≈anchoret≈anchorite≈eremite≈hermit +6 more
2. noun

   Ellipsis of solitary confinement.

   Example

   • The prisoners who started the riot were moved to solitary.
3. noun

   The state of being solitary; solitude

   Example

   • You must wonder why I'm relentless and all strung out/I'm consumed by the chill of solitary
4. adjective

   Living or being by oneself; alone; having no companion present

   Example

   • Though we don’t all reach nirvana when we swim, swimming may well be that last refuge from connectivity - and, for some, the only way to find the solitary self.
   ≈by oneself≈on one's own
5. adjective

   Performed, passed, or endured alone.

   Examples

   • a solitary journey
   • a solitary life
   ≈solo
6. adjective

   Not much visited or frequented; remote from society

   Example

   • a solitary residence or place
   ≈deavely≈lonely≈unfrequented≈unvisited
7. adjective

   Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted

   Examples

   • the solitary desert
   • How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people!
   ≈peopleless≈wasteful≈beingless≈desert≈deserted +16 more
8. adjective

   Gloomy; dismal, because of not being inhabited.

   ≈desolate≈bleak≈cheerless≈comfortless≈bleak +39 more
9. adjective

   Single; individual; sole.

   Examples

   • a solitary example
   • That makes it almost half a season with just a solitary win, and Mark Hughes' side will reflect on a costly capitulation at the end of the first half after fine goals from Stuart Armstrong and Cedric Soares had seemingly put them in control.
   ≈lone≈singular≈individual≈first and last≈lone +8 more
10. adjective

    Not associated with others of the same kind.