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# lonesome

«lonesome» in Mova's school dictionary: **alone and have no friends or company; lonely** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (lonesome, lonesomer, lonesomest — mostly US)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Sad because you are alone and have no friends or company; lonely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lonesome/#m1)

2) Far from other people; empty and quiet, as in a lonesome road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lonesome/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, songs and cowboy tales («lonesome cowboy»), it shows sadness and loneliness. In everyday American and Canadian talk, «I'm lonesome» means «I'm lonely». Phrases: feel lonesome, on your lonesome (UK, informal: all alone), lonesome road.

### examples

- The puppy felt lonesome without its brothers and sisters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lonesome/#x1)
- The cowboy sang a lonesome song by the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lonesome/#x2)
- A lonesome road led across the desert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lonesome/#x3)
- Grandpa gets lonesome since Grandma died. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lonesome/#x4)
- «What are you doing here on your lonesome?» asked Nan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lonesome/#x5)
- The lonesome wolf howled at the moon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lonesome/#x6)
- If a friend seems lonesome, ask them to play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lonesome/#x7)
- He feel mighty lonesome, en he feel mighty mad, Brer Rabbit did. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lonesome/#x8)

### note

Mostly US and Canadian; in British English «lonely» is usual. «On your lonesome» (UK, informal) = alone. Compare: alone (no one with you, can be happy) and lonely/lonesome (sad about it).

### In the corpora

- [Lonesome George, the last tortoise of his kind from Pinta Island, died in 2012.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lonesome» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lonesome/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.