Alone meaning

What does “alone” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“alone” is an adjective and adverb with 6 meanings. Its most common meaning is: isolated from others.

alone

isolated from others
“could be alone in a crowded room”
“was alone with her thoughts”
lacking companions or companionship
“he was alone when we met him”
“she is alone much of the time”
Synonymslone lonely solitary
exclusive of anyone or anything else
“she alone believed him”
“cannot live by bread alone”
Synonymsonly
radically distinctive and without equal
“he is alone in the field of microbiology”
“this theory is altogether alone in its penetration of the problem”
Synonymsunique unequaled unequalled unparalleled

without any others being included or involved
“was entirely to blame”
“a school devoted entirely to the needs of problem children”
Synonymsentirely exclusively solely only
without anybody else or anything else
“the child stayed home alone”
“the pillar stood alone, supporting nothing”
Synonymssolo unaccompanied

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University