Definition of Solitary

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Solitary

Living or being by one's self; having no companion present; being without associates; single; alone; lonely.

Performed, passed, or endured alone; as, a solitary journey; a solitary life.

ot much visited or frequented remote from society; retired; lonely; as, a solitary residence or place.

Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted; silent; still; hence, gloomy; dismal; as, the solitary desert.

Single; individual; sole; as, a solitary instance of vengeance; a solitary example.

Not associated with others of the same kind.

One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret; a hermit; a recluse.

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Solitary Quotations

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
Buddha

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Maya Angelou

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston Churchill

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
Rainer Maria Rilke

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
M. Scott Peck

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
Virginia Woolf

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward Beecher

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
Tennessee Williams

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka

Solitary Translations

solitary in Afrikaans is eensaam, alleen, enigste
solitary in Danish is alene
solitary in Dutch is enkel, bloot, louter
solitary in Finnish is yksin
solitary in Italian is singolo, solo
solitary in Norwegian is alene
solitary in Swedish is enslig

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