alone

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

• isolated from others
  • "could be alone in a crowded room"
  • "was alone with her thoughts"
  • "I want to be alone"
• lacking companions or companionship
  • "he was alone when we met him"
  • "she is alone much of the time"
• exclusive of anyone or anything else
  • "she alone believed him"
  • "cannot live by bread alone"
• radically distinctive and without equal
  • "he is alone in the field of microbiology"
  • "this theory is altogether alone in its penetration of the problem"

Adverb

• without any others being included or involved
  • "the burden of proof rests on the prosecution alone"
• without anybody else or anything else
  • "the child stayed home alone"
  • "the pillar stood alone, supporting nothing"

Adj

• By oneself, solitary.
• Lacking peers who share one's beliefs, experiences, practices, etc.
• Apart from, or exclusive of, others.
• Mere; consisting of nothing further.
• Unique; rare; matchless.

Adv

• By oneself; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.
• Without outside help.
• Focus adverb, typically modifying a noun and occurring immediately after it.
• Not permitting anything further; exclusively.
• Focus adverb, typically modifying a noun and occurring immediately after it.
• Not requiring anything further; merely.
• Focus adverb, typically modifying a noun and occurring immediately after it.
• Used to emphasize the size or extent of something by selecting a subset.

Synonyms

alone, by one's lonesome, by oneself, entirely, exclusively, expressly, isolatedly, lone, lonelily, lonely, on one's bill, on one's lonesome, on one's own, on one's tod, only, single-handed, single-handedly, singlehandedly, singlely, singly, solely, solitarily, solitary, solo, unaccompanied, unaidedly, unassisted, unassistedly, unequaled, unequalled, unique, unparalleled, wholly

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