Solitary vs Hidden - 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.
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(botany) Not associated with others of the same kind.
That has been moved out of sight. Invisible or unapparent.
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That has been hidden.
Solitary is a related term of hidden.
As adjectives the difference between solitary and hidden
is that solitary is living or being by one's self; alone; having no companion present; being without associates while hidden is that has been moved out of sight invisible or unapparent.As a noun solitary
is one who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret, hermit or recluse.As a verb hidden is
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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
*hidden
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(en adjective)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.}}
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.}}
