Solitary

Word SOLITARY
Character 8
Hyphenation sol i ta ry
Pronunciations /ˈsɒlɪtɹi/

Definitions and meanings of "Solitary"

What do we mean by solitary?

Existing, living, or going without others; alone: synonym: alone. adjective

Happening, done, or made alone. adjective

Remote from civilization; secluded. adjective

Living alone or in pairs only. adjective

Single and set apart from others. adjective

A person who lives alone; a recluse. noun

Solitary confinement. noun

Living alone, or by one's self or by itself; without companions or associates; habitually inclined to avoid company.

All by one's self; without companions; unattended.

Marked by solitude; especially, remote from society; unfrequented; retired; secluded; lonely: as, a solitary glen.

Free from the sounds of human life; still; dismal.

Having a sense of loneliness; lonesome.

Retiring; diffident.

Passed without company; shared by no companions; lonely.

Single; sole; only, or only one: as, a solitary instance; a solitary example.

In botany, one only in a place; separate: as, a solitary stipule.

In anatomy, single; separate; not clustered; not agminate or gathered into patches; simple; not compound: as, the solitary follicles of the intestine.

In zoöl.:

Not social, sociable, or gregarious: noting species living habitually alone, or in pairs only.

Simple; not compound, aggregate, or colonial: as, solitary ascidians. See Simplices.

One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret, hermit or recluse.

Solitary confinement.

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The word "solitary" in example sentences

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_. ❋ William A. Alcott (1824)

The hole was what they called solitary confinement, and it was way down in the bottom of the old wing. ❋ TODD BRIDGES (2010)

Cyber journalist Fereshteh Ghazi was arrested, beaten and kept in solitary confinement. ❋ M.D. Ida Lichter (2010)

Over seven years, Stockdale was tortured repeatedly, held in solitary confinement and given no reason to believe he would ever make it out alive. ❋ Tony Schwartz (2010)

Oppenheimer, who had rotted in solitary for so many years, turned sour on the world, on everything. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Let us always remind ourselves that Birtukan was kept in solitary confinement under the most degrading conditions. ❋ Alemayehu G. Mariam (2010)

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? ❋ Unknown (2010)

All the escapees were given 21 days bread and water in solitary confinement at Stalag XVIIIA. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He spent some time in solitary for that escape and was threatened with a firing squad. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So the problem I faced in solitary, where incessant remembering strove for possession of me, was the problem of forgetting. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They decided that as the person already in solitary only had one day to go, they would let him out. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When he arrived someone else was in solitary already, which placed the guards in a quandary. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If ever a man deliberately committed murder, Al Hutchins did that morning in solitary at the Warden's bidding. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And for three years and a half, much of the time in solitary confinement, he was left to meditate upon the injustice of man. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They were questioned and returned to Stalag XVIIIA and given 21 days bread and water in solitary confinement. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Nor in solitary, out of nothing in Darrell Standing's experience, could I make these wide, far visions of time and space. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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