solitary
IPA: sˈɑɫʌtɛri
noun
- (countable) One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchorite, hermit or recluse.
- (uncountable) Solitary confinement.
- (uncountable) The state of being solitary; solitude
- (archaic) The Rodrigues solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria), an extinct flightless bird.
adjective
- Living or being by oneself; alone; having no companion present
- Performed, passed, or endured alone
- Not much visited or frequented; remote from society
- Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted
- gloomy; dismal, because of not being inhabited.
- Single; individual; sole.
- (botany) Not associated with others of the same kind.
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Examples of "solitary" in Sentences
- He becomes more sullen and solitary.
- The theme is a solitary woman in the big city.
- The Giant Anteater is also a very solitary animal.
- He was fettered and placed in solitary confinement.
- He is also calm, seemingly emotionless and solitary.
- He was shut up in solitary confinement in the Chateau.
- He found the conditions of solitary confinement inhumane.
- At the beginning of the season, Penders is still in solitary.
- The gustatory nucleus is a component of the solitary nucleus.
- It is a solitary forager which typically feeds on the ground.
- Oppenheimer, who had rotted in solitary for so many years, turned sour on the world, on everything.
- The hole was what they called solitary confinement, and it was way down in the bottom of the old wing.
- If ever a man deliberately committed murder, Al Hutchins did that morning in solitary at the Warden's bidding.
- Nor in solitary, out of nothing in Darrell Standing's experience, could I make these wide, far visions of time and space.
- So the problem I faced in solitary, where incessant remembering strove for possession of me, was the problem of forgetting.
- And for three years and a half, much of the time in solitary confinement, he was left to meditate upon the injustice of man.
- Or were these memories of other times and places still residual, asleep, immured in solitary in brain cells similarly to the way I was immured in a cell in San Quentin?
- He did, however, return to the camp on a number of occasions over the course of the next four years, generally to receive punishment (i.e. being locked in solitary confinement for 21 days bread and water) for escaping from various work camps.
- It is more difficult to say which extreme is worst, among _an equal number of individuals_; but probably the city; for in the country, vice is oftener solitary, and less frequently social; while in the city it is not only _social_ but also _solitary_.