Usually means: Feeling isolated without desired company.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word lonely:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. lonely: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lonely: Merriam-Webster
  3. lonely: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lonely: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lonely: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lonely: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lonely, lonely: Wordnik
  8. lonely: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lonely: Wiktionary
  10. lonely: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lonely: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lonely: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Lonely, lonely: Dictionary.com
  14. lonely: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Lonely: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lonely: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lonely: Rhymezone
  19. lonely: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lonely: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. lonely: FreeDictionary.org
  22. lonely: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. lonely: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. lonely: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lonely: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lonely: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lonely: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lonely: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See lonelier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Unhappy due to feeling isolated from contact with other people.
adjective:  (of a place or time) Unfrequented by people; desolate.
adjective:  (of a person) Without companions; solitary.

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