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lonely
( also lonesome American English ) unhappy because you are alone or do not have any friends:
• Tammy felt very lonely when she first arrived in New York. • Our neighbor George is a very lonely man. • I get so lonesome here with no one to talk to.
isolated
lonely because your situation makes it difficult for you to meet people:
• People caring for sick relatives often feel very isolated. • Children of very rich parents can grow up isolated from the rest of society.
alienated
feeling that you do not belong in a particular place or group:
• She felt very alienated as the only woman in the company. • In high school she felt somehow different and alienated from other students.
homesick
unhappy because you are a long way from your home and the people who live there:
• When I first went to Germany, I was very homesick.
miss somebody
used when saying that you feel unhappy because someone is not there with you:
• I miss you. • She misses her friends.
Longman-Thesaurus
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adj. VERBS be, feel, look, seem | become, get ADV. desperately, extremely, terribly, unbearably, very She was desperately lonely at school. | a bit, a little, pretty, rather | oddly She felt oddly lonely without her books.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary