[lone.some] adj (1647) 1 a: sad or dejected as a result of lack of companionship or separation from others "don't be ~ while we are gone" b: causing a feeling of loneliness "the empty house seemed so ~"
2. a: remote, unfrequented "look down, look down that ~ road --Gene Austin" b: lone syn see alone -- lone.some.ly adv -- lone.some.ness n
[2]lonesome n (1899): self "sat all by his ~"