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Main Entry:	alone [uh-lohn] Show IPA/əˈloʊn/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	separate; apart
Synonyms:	abandoned, batching it, by itself/oneself, companionless, deserted, desolate, detached, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, hermit, in solitary, individual, isolated, lone, lonely, lonesome, me and my shadow, me myself and I, on one's own, onliest, only, shag, single, sole, solitary, solo, stag, traveling light, unaccompanied, unaided, unassisted, unattached, unattended, unescorted, unmarried, widowed
Antonyms:	together

Main Entry:	abandoned
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	left alone, deserted
Synonyms:	alone, cast aside, cast away, deserted, discarded, dissipated, dropped, dumped, eighty-sixed, eliminated, empty, forgotten, forsaken, given up, godforsaken, jilted, left, left in the cold, left in the lurch, neglected, on the rocks, outcast, passed up, pigeon-holed, rejected, relinquished, shunned, side-tracked, sidelined, unoccupied, vacant, vacated
Antonyms:	adopted, cherished, defended, maintained, supported

Main Entry:	all
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	exclusively
Synonyms:	alone, nothing but, only, solely
Antonyms:	incompletely

Example Sentences

To be ill and alone requires far more advanced planning than is required of those who live with their families.

Technology is taking away our privacy and our concentration, but it is also taking away our ability to be alone.

They may be tempted to go it alone and pump even more oil in order to keep prices in check before a rise in seasonal demand.

To be ill and alone requires far more advanced planning than is required of those who live with their families.

Technology is taking away our privacy and our concentration, but it is also taking away our ability to be alone.

They may be tempted to go it alone and pump even more oil in order to keep prices in check before a rise in seasonal demand.

In the rare mating system called polyandry, the female breeds with several males, which then raise the offspring alone.

The evidence is flimsy for innate chimpanzee–let alone human–warfare.

What happens afterwards is your business and yours alone.

If the aroma of sweet loaves baking in a warm kitchen during the holidays stirs happy memories, you aren't alone.

The test subject, shown in the screens on the right, enters the room with the solo option and collects the food alone.

Recent news stories indicate that my university is hardly alone in confronting these problems.

Nor, if the expansion stumbles, can they prop it up alone.

Tigers live alone and aggressively scent-mark large territories to keep their rivals away.

We're not going to have any search for scapegoats the final responsibilities of any failure are mine, and mine alone.

Hunt suspected that humans alone could not destroy the forests this quickly.

When the seasonal bounty is this gorgeous, it's best to leave well enough alone.

Summer evenings alone at home led me to comical creative outlets.

He alone knew where his research was going, and he was so focused.

But a peace maintained by deterrence alone is a frail thing.

Male cheetahs live alone or in small groups, often with their littermates.

Studies show that dog owners can pick their pooch out of a lineup by smell alone.

Working alone or in a group, orcas create waves that dislodge a floe, break it up and wash the stranded prey into open water.

It's hard enough to plan a garden on your own, let alone plan one on a budget.

Kunnari is not alone among parents when she says treatment comes down to choice.

Target is not alone among the large retailers in moving the big shopping day forward.

Males emus and rheas essentially raise their hatchlings alone.

Any teacher can tell you that smarts alone do not a good student make.

Their future clearly hinged on people's willingness to leave them alone if they weren't doing any harm.

All are superb in containers, either alone or in combination with other plants.

They have a difficult time psychologically coping with the experience of being completely alone.

It is normal for a dog or pack-oriented animal to feel anxious or panicky when left alone.

Tastebuds alone do not determine what something tastes like.

And when the researchers looked at patterns of drinking, macaques that lived alone tended to drink the most.

Let this tiny modern planter stand alone as a sculpture?or add some greenery to create a living roof.

There have been previous hints, however, that the chloroplasts in the slug don't run on stored-up supplies alone.

Leave the seal alone and wait until it ventures into the water.

Malin is not necessarily antisocial, but he does do his best work alone.

Imagine being alone on the ocean for five or ten weeks, sailing in snow, ice and spray cruel as needles.

Circular flowers arise either alone or in clusters from a foliage rosette.

The numbers are almost too big to grasp, let alone quantify.

Giant otters hunt alone or in groups, sometimes using coordinated efforts.

The walk to and from school can't be uphill both ways, but going it alone might make it seem that way.

Grover still makes me laugh and the theme song alone is iconic.

Because the fruit is so good and the plant so difficult to eradicate, it is usually left alone.

If you're at a movie theater, look around for someone sitting alone and wearing a white hat.

Scientists rarely read such old-let alone ancient-scientific texts.

Then the police said it was too dangerous to walk around the neighborhood alone toting expensive camera gear.

These types are worth growing for their ornamental value alone.

But her family finds it unacceptable for a woman to venture alone into the city without a male companion or an appointment.

Still others tilt alone into space, as if accommodating their compatriots, obligingly sharing the cave's ceiling.

Use horticultural oil either alone or mixed with lime sulfur or fixed copper.

If someone plunks a random piano key, a tiny minority of people can identify the note based on its sound alone.

The portion of the snout alone confirms that it was one of the spinosaurs.

Blooms are unscented, but more than worth it for color and form alone.

The scent alone makes tuberoses worth the extra effort.

If you're tempted to visit, though, better not come alone.

The herb section alone looks to be the length of a city block.

It would have been cool to leave the wasp alone to kill the aphids.

People who live alone can end up being their own quarterbacks at a particularly vulnerable time.

Well-being shouldn't be measured by time-spans alone.

Last week alone five giant panda cubs were born in captivity.

Humans are not alone in having infants that emerge facing backwards.

My first meal alone in a new city was delayed due to an unexpected test of survival skills.

At a time when finding a job, let alone a secure one, may seem like.

Games, she says, are increasingly played with others rather than alone.

Brainy fellow creatures show that humans are not alone in their ability to invent, plan, or contemplate.

The sandwiches alone are worth a stop at this market and wine shop favored by local chefs.

Measuring poverty by income alone may distort the picture.

His is a profession in which success should depend on talent alone.

The number of galaxies cannot be counted-the observable universe alone may contain.

Alone among living creatures, human beings have no tolerance for the inexplicable.

In every member-state, there are people who believe their country can survive alone in the globalised world.

They found that the birds' neurons reacted far more strongly to the duet than when they sang their parts alone.

However, this is seldom as satisfying as when the man performs the task alone.

Whether the shooter was acting alone or as part of a bigger conspiracy may never be known.

But a partner alone cannot provide enough support for the difficult mission.

He left a series of four-year-olds alone in a room with a marshmallow on the.

Severe mental illness alone is not generally enough to cause violent behavior.

Yet modern readers barely have time to read their e-mail, let alone tackle a million word masterpiece.

It's the only computer people are interested in buying because of its design alone.

Rachel is not alone in having voiced her concerns about her skills.

The construction alone will pump several billion dollars into the local economy.

Life-history traits such as age at first reproduction and prolonged childhood are hard to establish from the fossil record alone.

Thunderbolt is not alone in its quest to deliver a jet pack.

It happens, and it's for these students alone that remedial courses are worth it.

Ants that work cooperatively can handle bigger seeds, while ants that tend to work alone bury smaller seeds.

The intent of the mixture is to provide toxic redundancy so that each drug alone would bring on death.

We start with small doses and don't usually offer, let alone require, extended sequences.

Standing alone is not really an option for any country, lest they be caught out while others do integrate.

The spots alone do not cause so-called space weather, but they are related to solar storms.

No plan to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions can succeed through increases in energy efficiency alone.

Even though many nets are now equipped with devices to release the dolphins, the stress of capture alone may cause injury.

Up to the year my stepfather died, he never left me alone about my weight, all through my adolescence and adulthood.

Churchill alone emerged as the great leader, the wartime genius, the deliverer of democracy.

Losada showed that positivity alone is not decisive.

We're going to leave the bees alone for awhile to give her a chance to do that.

Red yucca is left alone as well and is blooms beautifully if it will grow where you are.

They water them after they sprout, cut them down in the fall and leave them alone for the winter.

Main Entry:	apart
Part of Speech:	adverb
Definition:	separate
Synonyms:	afar, alone, aloof, aside, away, by itself, cut off*, disassociated, disconnected, distant, distinct, divorced, excluded, exclusively, freely, independent, independently, individually, isolated, lone wolf, separated, separately, singly, special, to itself, to one side
Antonyms:	together

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	aside
Part of Speech:	adverb
Definition:	away from; to the side
Synonyms:	abreast, afar, alone, alongside, apart, away, beside, by oneself, down, in isolation, in reserve, near, nearby, neck and neck, out, out of the way, privately, separately, sidewise
Antonyms:	middle

Main Entry:	detached
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	disconnected
Synonyms:	alone, apart, discrete, disjoined, divided, emancipated, free, isolate, isolated, loose, loosened, removed, separate, severed, unaccompanied, unconnected
Antonyms:	attached, combined, connected, coupled, linked, merged, united

Main Entry:	entirely
Part of Speech:	adverb
Definition:	completely
Synonyms:	absolutely, alone, altogether, exclusively, fully, in every respect, only, perfectly, plumb, quite, reservedly, solely, thoroughly, totally, undividedly, uniquely, utterly, well, wholly, without exception, without reservation
Antonyms:	incompletely, partially

Main Entry:	exclusively
Part of Speech:	adverb
Definition:	particularly
Synonyms:	alone, but, completely, entirely, one and only, onliest, only, singularly, solely, wholly
Antonyms:	unlimited, unrestricted

Main Entry:	forlorn
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	hopeless, inconsolable
Synonyms:	abandoned, alone, bereft, blue*, cheerless, comfortless, cynical, defenseless, depressed, deserted, desolate, despairing, desperate, despondent, destitute, destroyed, disconsolate, down and out, dragging, forgotten, forsaken, friendless, fruitless, futile, godforsaken, helpless, homeless, in the dumps, lonely, lonesome, lost, miserable, oppressed, pathetic, pessimistic, pitiable, pitiful, solitary, tragic, unhappy, vain, weighed down, woebegone, wretched
Notes:	lonely adds to solitary a suggestion of longing for companionship, while lonesome heightens the suggestion of sadness; forlorn and desolate are even more isolated and sad
Antonyms:	cheerful, comforted, consolable, happy, hopeful, joyful, pleased

* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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