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solitary

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adjective

sol·​i·​tary ˈsä-lə-ˌter-ē How to pronounce solitary (audio)
1
a
: being, living, or going alone or without companions
b
: saddened by isolation
2
: unfrequented, desolate
a solitary seashore
3
a
: taken, passed, or performed without companions
a solitary ramble
b
: keeping a prisoner apart from others
solitary confinement
4
: being at once single and isolated
a solitary example
5
a
: occurring singly and not as part of a group or cluster
flowers terminal and solitary
b
: not gregarious, colonial, social, or compound
solitary bees
solitarily
ˌsä-lə-ˈter-ə-lē How to pronounce solitary (audio)
adverb
solitariness
ˈsä-lə-ˌter-ē-nəs How to pronounce solitary (audio)
noun

solitary

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noun

plural solitaries
1
: one who lives or seeks to live a solitary life : recluse
2
: solitary confinement in prison
put him in solitary

Synonyms

Adjective

Noun

Choose the Right Synonym for solitary

alone, solitary, lonely, lonesome, lone, forlorn, desolate mean isolated from others.

alone stresses the objective fact of being by oneself with slighter notion of emotional involvement than most of the remaining terms.

everyone needs to be alone sometimes

solitary may indicate isolation as a chosen course

glorying in the calm of her solitary life

but more often it suggests sadness and a sense of loss.

left solitary by the death of his wife

lonely adds to solitary a suggestion of longing for companionship.

felt lonely and forsaken

lonesome heightens the suggestion of sadness and poignancy.

an only child often leads a lonesome life

lone may replace lonely or lonesome but typically is as objective as alone.

a lone robin pecking at the lawn

forlorn stresses dejection, woe, and listlessness at separation from one held dear.

a forlorn lost child

desolate implies inconsolable grief at loss or bereavement.

desolate after her brother's death

Example Sentences

Adjective He took a solitary walk on the beach. A solitary house stood on top of the cliff. Most cats are solitary creatures. He's a very solitary man. Noun The prisoner was kept in solitary. weary of European civilization, the painter Paul Gauguin famously abandoned France to become a solitary in the South Seas See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Adjective
The case against Masters, who spent years in solitary confinement, was built on the testimony of several other inmates, and on notes outlining the attack that were found in Masters’ handwriting. Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2022 Rajabian was arrested in 2013, put in solitary confinement for three months, released on bail and arrested again in 2015 for recording an album titled The History of Iran Narrated By Setar (a lute-like instrument used in traditional Persian music). Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 8 Sep. 2022 In solitary confinement, human touch becomes as precious as water in the desert. James Burns, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2022 Until the recent settlement of a lawsuit, which accused the state of Florida of inhumanely subjecting death row inmates to solitary confinement, inmates spent their time alone, able to talk to nearby inmates only through the bars of their cells. David Fleshler, Sun Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2022 The question of how to continue after a life-altering loss is examined but unresolved, and the narrator returns at the end to his solitary existence in Florida with a sense of his grief renewed, and of gratitude for it. Alan Hollinghurst, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022 They can also be housed with other inmates after being held in solitary cells on Death Row. Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2022 Outside of interacting with the players, the guards’ existence has a very high-tech prison feel, with scanned masks, no-nonsense gray walls, and solitary cells. Quinci Legardye, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2021 Even more so for an 82-year-old who has spent three decades living a solitary existence on a paradise island. Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 25 Sep. 2021
Noun
With its sprawling freeways and solitary, car-centric culture, Los Angeles is not known as an easy place to make friends. Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2022 Witnesses at the hearing told the committee that any time in solitary can be life-altering. NBC News, 28 Apr. 2022 Witnesses at the hearing told the committee that any time in solitary can be life-altering. Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 28 Apr. 2022 How has your thinking about reading as a solitary or a social act evolved during this time? Eve Bowen, The New York Review of Books, 5 Mar. 2022 In retaliation, Cohen says he was sent back to prison and spent 16 days in solitary until a federal judge intervened. Dan Berman, CNN, 12 Feb. 2022 Machen’s father was an impecunious clergyman, his mother an invalid, and their son a solitary but not lonely child. Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books, 28 May 2020 As an interesting side note, this little pirate ship included the solitary (and sometimes cantankerous) engineer, Steve Anderson, who produced Ford police packages, under the glamorous banner DSO, for Dealer Special Order. Mark Ewing, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021 While one solitary dropped shot left him just three shots shy of Justin Rose in the lead, the emotions were too much for Kim. Ben Morse, CNN, 9 Apr. 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

Adjective

Middle English, solitarie, from Anglo-French, from Latin solitarius, from solitas aloneness, from solus alone

First Known Use

Adjective

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Noun

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of solitary was in the 14th century

Phrases Containing solitary

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