solitary

Plural: solitaries

Noun

• A person who lives alone or in seclusion.
• 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.

Examples

• a solitary example
• a solitary journey
• a solitary life
• a solitary residence or place
• The prisoners who started the riot were moved to solitary.
• the solitary desert
• The solitary Words With Friends player enjoyed the quiet challenge of the game.

Synonyms

alone, hermit, lone, lonely, lonesome, nongregarious, nonsocial, only, recluse, sole, solitary confinement, solitudinarian, troglodyte, unfrequented, Miller of Dee, 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, individual, inhabitantless, inhabited, joyless, lack-laughter, lifeless, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, monk, no joke, on one's own, one, one and only, peopleless, saturnine, shut-in, single, singular, solemn, solitary, solo, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, sunless, tenantless, uncheerful, uncheery, unhabited, unhappy, uninhabited, unitary, unmerry, unoccupied, unpeopled, unpopulated, untenanted, unvisited, vacant, wasteful, wintry, woeful

Anagrams of solitary