Oh my word Alone, Lone, Lonely, Lonesome

I am alone (without others) but not lonely (without others or alone and unhappy as a result of it). Alone means without the company of others, without anyone around. Alone is a predicative adjective, and an adverb. Predicative adjectives are placed after a verb (she lived alone. She likes to live alone.). Alone means without others present, without a companion: Some people do not like to travel alone, or to travel alone in the dark.

Alone means without others’ help. She can handle things alone. Alone means lonely and wretched: he felt alone. Alone is often followed by ‘in’: standing by oneself in an opinion, belief, etc. she was alone in thinking on these lines. Alone means only, exclusively. She alone can help me. You alone can help me. Go it a’lone is an idiom meaning act by oneself without assistance, unaided, independently, unaccompanied.

India decided to go it alone in combating terrorism irrespective of the support of neighbouring countries. Alone is derived from Middle English’s ‘all one’ to ‘alone’. Following a noun, alone refers to only, exclusively. The pair of dress alone cost him Rs 10,000. Time alone will tell what is in store for your career. He lived all alone in the tiny cottage on the edge of a jungle.

I prefer to be alone for two to three weeks. With the death of her husband, she started to live alone I can live alone for months but after six months I could get lonely, or lonesome Lonely means without others around and as a result of it being unhappy. NOTE that alone is not used before a noun but lone and solitary can be used instead.

Lone is literary word. The only life in the area was the presence of a cattle-shed.The only green thing was a lone/solitary pine tree. Lone is an adjective. Lone means solitary, isolated, secluded, by yourself, unaccompanied; remote, lonesome. In the US and Canadian English, lone can loneliness means desertedness.

Lonely is an adjective: solitary, alone, isolated, lone, withdrawn, single, estranged, outcast, forsaken, forlorn, destitute, by yourself, , friendless, companionless; another meaning is secluded, isolated. Lonely and solitary describe places where people do not go or frequent: A lonely hamlet in the scrubland. A lonely house on the steep of the hill is the one where only family members visit.

Loneliness is a noun: solitude, isolation, seclusion, aloneness, dreariness, forlornness, lonesomeness. Lonesome is an adjective means lonely, isolated, gloomy, dreary, cheerless, friendless, companionless,. Loner is an individualist, outsider, solitary, maverick, hermit, recluse, misanthrope, lone wolf.

Kovuuri G Reddy