solitary

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

He brooded and intrigued fantastically. He was becoming one of the big-time solitaries. And he wasn't meant to be a solitary. He was meant to be in active life, a social creature.

Tilling my own grave to keep me level Jam another dragon down the hole Digging to the rhythm and the echo of a solitary siren One that pushes me along and leaves me so Desperate and ravenous

Ellipsis of solitary confinement.

The prisoners who started the riot were moved to solitary.

The state of being solitary; solitude

You must wonder why I'm relentless and all strung out/I'm consumed by the chill of solitary

Living or being by oneself; alone; having no companion present

The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.

Though we don’t all reach nirvana when we swim, swimming may well be that last refuge from connectivity — and, for some, the only way to find the solitary self.

Performed, passed, or endured alone.

a solitary journey

a solitary life

Not much visited or frequented; remote from society

a solitary residence or place

Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted

the solitary desert

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people!

Gloomy; dismal, because of not being inhabited.

Archaic form of solitaire (“Rodrigues solitaire”).