aloan

Adjective

alone (not comparable)

1. (predicative) By oneself, solitary.
   • I can't ask for help because I am alone.

   Synonyms:

   on one's own, unaccompanied

   1. (predicative) Not involved in a romantic relationship.
2. (predicative) Lacking peers who share one's beliefs, experiences, practices, etc.
   • Senator Craddock wants to abolish the estate tax, and she's not alone.

   Synonyms:

   deserted, forsaken, isolated

3. (obsolete, predicative) Apart from, or exclusive of, others.
   • There are proofs enough in History, and first that beautiful Hynes, so much beloved by Charles the seventh King of France, who valued the alone possession of her Love at so high a rate, that[…]1662, Jacques Olivier, translated by Richard Banke, A Discourse of Women, Shewing Their Imperfections Alphabetically, →OCLC, page 18

   Synonyms:

   exclusive, sole

4. (obsolete, predicative) Mere; consisting of nothing further.
   • and therefore all Killing, Banishing, Fining, Imprisoning, and other such things, which Men are afflicted with, for the alone exercise of their Conscience, or difference in Worship or Opinion, proceedeth from the spirit of Cain, the Murderer, and is contrary to the Truth;1676, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity […]

   Synonyms:

   simple, only, very, bare, just, mere

5. (obsolete, predicative) Unique; rare; matchless.
   • Pardon me, Proteus, all I can is nothing / To her, whose worth makes other worthies nothing; / She is alone.c. 1589–1593, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 2, scene 4, lines 163–165

   Synonyms:

   nonpareil, peerless, unparalleled, azygous, incomparable, matchless, only, singular, sui generis, unequaled

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