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Alone vs Hidden - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between alone and hidden

is that alone is by oneself, solitary while hidden is that has been moved out of sight. Invisible or unapparent.

As an adverb alone

is by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.

As a verb hidden is

past participle of lang=en.

alone

English

(wikipedia alone)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • By oneself, solitary.
  • :
  • *(Bible), (w) ii. 18
  • *:It is not good that the man should be alone .
  • *(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
  • *:Alone on a wide, wide sea.
  • Apart from, or exclusive of, others.
  • :
  • *(Richard Bentley) (1662-1742)
  • *:God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being.
  • Considered separately.
  • *
  • *:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone , without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
  • *{{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
    • , date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=In America alone , people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
  • Without equal.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-23, author= Ian Traynor
    • , volume=189, issue=11, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Rise of Europe's new autocrats , passage=Hungary's leader is not alone in eastern and southern Europe, where democratically elected populist strongmen increasingly dominate, deploying the power of the state and a battery of instruments of intimidation to crush dissent, demonise opposition, tame the media and tailor the system to their ends.}}
  • (lb) Unique; rare; matchless.
  • :(Shakespeare)

    • Usage notes

    * Used after what it modifies.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • By one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.
  • Without outside help.
  • Exclusively.

    • Usage notes

    * Unlike most focusing adverbs, alone typically appears after a noun phrase. *: Only the teacher knew'' vs. ''The teacher alone knew

    Synonyms

    * (by oneself) lone, lonely, single, solitary, solo * (without outside help) singlehandedly, by myself * (exclusively)

    Derived terms

    * alonely * leave alone * let alone

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    hidden

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That has been moved out of sight. Invisible or unapparent.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
    • , section=chapter 7, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=It was the Lost Oasis, the Oasis of the vision in the sand. […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= It's a gas , passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
  • Obscure.
  • That has been hidden.

    • Synonyms

    * See

    Antonyms

    * See