Synonyms and Antonyms of lonesome
- a lonesome kitten left at the pound by its hard-hearted owners
- a lonesome cypress tree on a rocky, windswept point
cloistered, disassociated, hermetic (also hermetical), insulated, isolate, isolated, remote, retired, secluded, withdrawn
quarantined, segregated, separated, sequestered
separate, unattached, unconnected, unlinked
detached, disconnected, disjointed, dissociated, disunited, divided, fractionated
abandoned, adrift, deserted, desolate, forgotten, forsaken, lorn, neglected
- the playground seems especially lonesome now that there are no young children in the neighborhood
black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched
blue, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, down, droopy, hangdog, inconsolable, low, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, sad, unhappy, woebegone, woeful
dim, discomfiting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, upsetting
desperate, hopeless, pessimistic