solitary

adj.单独的,

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
solitary (adjective)
1.
a) being, living, or going alone or without companions
b) saddened by isolation
2.
- unfrequented desolate a solitary seashore
3.
a) taken, passed, or performed without companions - a solitary ramble
b) keeping a prisoner apart from others - solitary confinement
4.
being at once single and isolated - a solitary example
5.
a) occurring singly and not as part of a group or cluster - flowers terminal and solitary
b) not gregarious, colonial, social, or compound - solitary bees alone
solitary (noun)
1.
one who lives or seeks to live a solitary life - recluse
2.
solitary confinement in prison - put him in solitary
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
solitary (adjective)
1.
being the one or ones of a class with no other members
SYNONYMS:
alone, lone, one, one-off, singular, sole, solitary, special, sui generis, unique
RELATED WORDS:
single, solo, unaccompanied, unattended; incomparable, inimitable, matchless, peerless, unequaled ( unequalled), unmatched, unparalleled, unrivaled ( unrivalled), unsurpassable, unsurpassed; distinct, distinctive, individual, separate; nonce
NEAR ANTONYMS:
divers, manifold, multifarious, myriad; assorted, heterogenous, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, patchwork, promiscuous, varied; popular, prevailing, prevalent, rampant; perennial, recurrent, repeated
solitary (adjective)
2.
not being in the company of others
SYNONYMS:
lone, lonely, lonesome, single, solitary, solo, unaccompanied
RELATED WORDS:
unattended, unchaperoned; forlorn, friendless; cloistered, disassociated, hermetic ( hermetical), insulated, isolate, isolated, remote, retired, secluded, withdrawn; quarantined, segregated, separated, sequestered; separate, unattached, unconnected, unlinked; detached, disconnected, disjointed, dissociated, disunited,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
NEAR ANTONYMS:
attended, chaperoned, escorted; adjacent, adjoining, communicating, contiguous, neighboring, next-door; attached, connected, coupled, linked
accompanied
solitary (noun)
a person who lives away from others
SYNONYMS:
anchorite, eremite, hermit, isolate, solitary
RELATED WORDS:
homebody, shut-in
NEAR ANTONYMS:
socialite; socializer
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