Solitary vs Dismal - What's the difference?
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One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret, hermit or recluse.
Living or being by one's self; alone; having no companion present; being without associates.
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, title= Performed, passed, or endured alone; as, a solitary journey; a solitary life.
Not much visited or frequented; remote from society; retired.
Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted; silent; still; hence, gloomy; dismal.
* Bible, Lam. i. 1
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(botany) Not associated with others of the same kind.
Disappointingly inadequate.
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, title= Gloomy and bleak.
Depressing.
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Solitary is a related term of dismal.
As adjectives the difference between solitary and dismal
is that solitary is living or being by one's self; alone; having no companion present; being without associates while dismal is disappointingly inadequate.As a noun solitary
is one who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret, hermit or recluse.solitary
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(wikipedia solitary)Noun
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* See alsoAdjective
(-)Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=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.}}
- the solitary desert
- How doth the city sit solitary , that was full of people.
Death Walks in Eastrepps, passage=Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.}}
Derived terms
* solitariness * solitary confinement * solitary sandpiper * solitary snipe * solitary thrush * solitary tinamouAnagrams
*dismal
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(en adjective)Liverpool 0-1 West Brom, passage=Liverpool's efforts thereafter had an air of desperation as their dismal 2012 league form continued.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all. It looked like a tomb and smelt pretty nigh as musty and dead-and-gone.}}