| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Lacking the company of others: alone, companionless, lone, lonely, lonesome, single, unaccompanied. See INCLUDE. 2. Not friendly, sociable, or warm in manner: aloof, chill, chilly, cool, distant, offish, remote, reserved, reticent, standoffish, unapproachable, uncommunicative, undemonstrative, withdrawn. See ATTITUDE, HOT. 3. Alone in a given category: lone, one, only, particular, separate, single, singular, sole, unique. Idioms: first and last, one and only. See INCLUDE. 4. Far from centers of human population: back, insular, isolated, lonely, lonesome, obscure, outlying, out-of-the-way, remote, removed, secluded. Idioms: off the beaten path (or track) . See NEAR. 5. Set away from all others: alone, apart, detached, isolate, isolated, lone, removed. See INCLUDE.
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