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Synonyms of solitary in English:

solitary


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adjective

1‘I live a pretty solitary life’

SYNONYMS
lonely, companionless, unaccompanied, by itself, by oneself, on its own, on one's own, alone, all alone, friendless
antisocial, unsociable, withdrawn, reclusive, cloistered, introverted, hermitic
North American lonesome
ANTONYMS

sociable

2‘solitary farmsteads were sparingly dotted about’

SYNONYMS
isolated, remote, out of the way, outlying, off the beaten track, in the depths of …, hard to find, lonely, in the back of beyond, in the hinterlands, off the map, in the middle of nowhere, godforsaken, obscure, inaccessible, cut-off, tucked away, unreachable
faraway, far-flung
secluded, hidden, concealed, private, unfrequented, unvisited, undisturbed, sequestered, desolate
North American in the backwoods, lonesome
South African in the backveld, in the platteland
Australian, New Zealand in the backblocks, in the booay
informal unget-at-able, in the sticks
North American informal jerkwater, in the tall timbers, in the boondocks
Australian, New Zealand informal Barcoo, beyond the black stump
literary lone
archaic unapproachable
ANTONYMS

accessible, busy

3‘we have not a solitary shred of evidence to go on’

SYNONYMS
single, lone, sole, unique, only, one, individual
odd

noun

1‘at school he remained a solitary’

SYNONYMS
loner, lone wolf, introvert, recluse, hermit
hikikomori
rare eremite, anchorite, anchoress, stylite, cenobite