mindmap root((孤独)) alone suggests the objective fact of being by oneself with a slight notion of emotional involvement: happier when left ~ occasionally. solitary may indicate isolation as a chosen course: glorying in the calm of her ~ life; but more often it suggests sadness and a sense of loss: left ~ by the death of his wife. lonely adds a suggestion of longing for companionship: felt ~ and forsaken. lonesome heightens the suggestion of sadness and poignancy of separation: an only child sometimes leads a ~ life. lone may replace lonely or lonesome but typically is as objective as alone: a ~ robin pecking at the lawn. forlorn stresses dejection, woe, and listlessness at separation from someone or something dear: a child lost and ~. desolate implies inconsolable grief at isolation caused by loss or bereavement : her brother's death now left her completely ~.