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- Whats the difference between lonely and lonesome
Lonely and Lonesome are synonymous But generally, lonely is meant to mean lack of companionship and personification of that lack (e g Houses cannot be lonely unless it is personified), whereas lonesome signifies something desolate, secluded or solitary like a lonesome house
- Whats an adjective for alone but not lonely?
For example, I'm an introvert I've been telling people that I'm a lonesome person because I prefer being alone Being alone does not make me feel lonely However, now that I learned that “lonesome” and “lonely” mean the same thing I'm wondering what adjective I'd use in place of “lonesome”
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- Can I use to partner instead of to partner with? [closed]
1985 L McMurtry Lonesome Dove (1986) xxiv 222 It's odd I partnered with a man like you 2000 Daily Tel 7 Mar 39 4 Alba has partnered with Pace Micro Technology, which manufactures set-top boxes for digital TV **b
- When has “hanky-panky” come to mean ’sexual dalliance’?
But I'll tell yer what I will do, though " She turned with a ghoulish leer, to Agnes "Yer say ye've only been married a fortnight, so I s'pose yer honnor, as yer calls it, is mighty precious to yer This 'ere bloke wots kidnapped yer might come his hanky panky now he's got yer alone in this lonesome place " She dipped down into some capacious
- abbreviations - How should I abbreviate versus? - English Language . . .
There are 4 types of abbreviations I know for "versus": v v vs vs I generally use the last one in the list, but I want to stick to one and use only that one
- Where did the expression its lonely at the top come from?
Hiram Johnson we must rank on our lonesome list, but his native instinct for loneliness deprives him of our sympathy; like Norris, he would be positively unhappy if he had any close friends From an unidentified story by Rosalind Constable in New English Review Magazine (1949) [combined snippets]:
- A word phrase describing the sound of leaves?
The horror of the situation was only heightened by the lonesome sound of the leaves scratching and scraping one another Or for a pleasant scenario: The leaves hummed and feathered as the women shuffled through the bright forest We tend to hear things very differently depending on how we feel in a given situation
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