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solitary adjective [ ˈsɒlɪt(ə)ri ]

• done or existing alone.
• "I live a pretty solitary life"
Similar: lonely, companionless, unaccompanied, by oneself/itself, on one's/its own, (all) alone, friendless, antisocial, unsociable, withdrawn, reclusive, cloistered, introverted, hermitic, lonesome,
Opposite: sociable,
• single; only.
• "we have not a solitary shred of evidence to go on"
Similar: single, lone, sole, unique, only, one, individual, odd,

solitary noun

• a recluse or hermit.
• "he had something of the solitary about him"
Similar: loner, lone wolf, introvert, recluse, hermit, hikikomori, eremite, anchorite, anchoress, stylite, cenobite,
• short for solitary confinement.
Origin: Middle English: from Latin solitarius, from solus ‘alone’.


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