solitarily

ADVERB

alone

Synonyms

WEAK

abandoned all by one's lonesome batching it by itself/oneself by oneself companionless deserted desolate detached forlorn forsaken friendless hermit in solitary individual isolated lone lonely lonesome me and my shadow me myself and I on one's own onliest only shag single single-handedly singly sole solely solitary solo stag traveling light unaccompanied unaided unassisted unattached unattended unescorted unmarried widowed

Example Sentences

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For most of two nights, Lewis’ remains lay solitarily in the middle of the Capitol Rotunda with that military honor guard standing vigil.

From Fox News • Aug. 30, 2020

Indeed, in one of the novel’s most enduring images, that coffin is what the narrator Ishmael clings to in solitarily surviving the Pequod’s destruction.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2017

No longer does Belle sit solitarily reading to disinterested sheep — “Oh isn’t this amazing” — she’s actively trying to get young women involved.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2017

Gymnosophist, jim-nos′of-ist, n. the name given by the Greeks to those ancient Hindu philosophers who wore little or no clothing, and lived solitarily in mystical contemplation.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

The soul is justified solitarily and alone, but it is sanctified only in the community of believers.

From The Prayers of St. Paul by Thomas, W. H. Griffith (William Henry Griffith)