solitary

Meanings

Plural: solitaries

Noun

• confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners
  • "he was held in solitary"
• one who lives in solitude
• One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchorite, hermit or recluse.
• Ellipsis of solitary confinement.
• The state of being solitary; solitude
• Archaic form of solitaire (“Rodrigues solitaire”).

Adjective Satellite

• characterized by or preferring solitude
  • "a man of a solitary disposition"
  • "a solitary walk"
• of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies
  • "solitary bees"
• lacking companions or companionship
  • "a solitary traveler"
• being the only one; single and isolated from others
  • "a solitary instance of cowardice"
  • "a solitary speck in the sky"
• devoid of creatures
  • "a solitary retreat"

Adj

• Living or being by oneself; alone; having no companion present
• Performed, passed, or endured alone
• Not much visited or frequented; remote from society
• Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted
• Gloomy; dismal, because of not being inhabited.
• Single; individual; sole.
• Not associated with others of the same kind.

Synonyms

alone, aloner, anchoret, anchorite, beingless, bleak, by oneself, cheerless, comfortless, dark, deavely, depressing, desert, deserted, desolate, dire, disconsolate, disinhabited, dismal, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, eremite, first and last, forlorn, gayless, gloomsome, gloomy, gray, grim, hermit, individual, inhabitantless, inhabited, joyless, lack-laughter, lifeless, lone, lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, melancholy, Miller of Dee, mirthless, miserable, monk, no joke, nongregarious, nonsocial, on one's own, one, one and only, only, peopleless, recluse, saturnine, shut-in, single, singular, sole, solemn, solitary, solitary confinement, solitudinarian, solo, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, sunless, tenantless, troglodyte, uncheerful, uncheery, unfrequented, unhabited, unhappy, uninhabited, unitary, unmerry, unoccupied, unpeopled, unpopulated, untenanted, unvisited, vacant, wasteful, wintry, woeful

Anagrams of solitary