solitary
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/icons/point.icon 一人の
alone: 一般には他者がいない事実を述べ, 必ずしも感情的な寂しさを意味しない. また名詞の前では用いない solitary: 〘主に書〙 で用いられ, 仲間がなく, ひとり[ひとつ]であることを強調する語 /icons/point.icon 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. e.g. everyone needs to be alone sometimes
e.g. glorying in the calm of her solitary life
e.g. left solitary by the death of his wife
e.g. felt lonely and forsaken
LONESOME heightens the suggestion of sadness and poignancy. e.g. an only child often leads a lonesome life
e.g. a lone robin pecking at the lawn
FORLORN stresses dejection, woe, and listlessness at separation from one held dear. e.g. a forlorn lost child
DESOLATE implies inconsolable grief at loss or bereavement. e.g. desolate after her brother's death
adjective
1人[1つ]だけの; 単独の, 単独行動をする〈人・動物・物など〉
e.g. I live a pretty solitary life
e.g. tigers are essentially solitary.
人里離れた, 〈場所などが〉寂しい
e.g. solitary farmsteads.
唯一の, たった1人[1つ]の(…でさえ) (!通例否定文・疑問文で)
e.g. we have not a solitary shred of evidence to go on.
〘動〙 群居しない
e.g. a solitary wasp.
〘植〙 単生の
独居者; 隠者
e.g. he had something of the solitary about him.
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