alone

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.

Adjective

• Being separate, apart, or isolated from others.

Examples

• Her wardrobe is huge. She has three racks for blazers alone.
• I always organize my Halloween candy before eating it. Am I alone in this?
• I can't ask for help because I am alone.
• Oral antibiotics alone won't clear the infection.
• Senator Craddock wants to abolish the estate tax, and she's not alone.
• She walked home alone.
• The first sentence alone sold me on the book.
• The job was too hard for me to do alone.
• The letter ’Q’ sat alone on his rack, waiting for a ’U’.
• The president alone has the power to initiate a nuclear launch.

Synonyms

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

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