There are a few definitions of lonely but they all share the same qualities: solitude, the absence of human company, and not a lot of exciting stuff going on.
Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired;
Adjective S.
marked by dejection from being alone; "felt sad and lonely"; "the loneliest night of the week"; "lonesome when her husband is away"; "spent a lonesome hour in the bar"
superl.
Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary;
retired; as, a lonely situation; a lonely cell.
superl.
Alone, or in want of company; forsaken.
superl.
Not frequented by human beings; as, a lonely wood.
superl.
Having a feeling of depression or sadness resulting
from the consciousness of being alone; lonesome.
Lonely
To the misled and lonely traveler.3.
I am very often alone. I don't mean I am lonely.
Sequestered from company or neighbors; solitary; retired;
Usage Examples
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.
For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
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Other Usage Examples'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.
Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
At that time, I feel sad, and I feel no one knows how hard I work and how many tears. They only know the score. At that time, I feel very lonely because no one understands since they haven't been world No. 1 before.
Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.