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What is the difference between "lonesome" and "lonely" ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between "lonesome" and "lonely" ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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J'entends pas "lonesome" très souvent, je pense qu'il s'agit d'un mot littéraire.
Lonely est beaucoup plus courant
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Lonely is someone or something who’s alone and desires companionship. It’s generally short-term.
If you’re feeling lonely why don’t you come to the movie with me?
My mom lives alone and sometimes gets lonely so I like to invite her out to dinner once a week.
Do you think our cats get lonely when we’re gone?
Lonesome is hard to describe: it’s lonely in a long-term and more existential way. It also means remote and rarely visited , desolate, forlorn
I’m not lonesome at all. I enjoy being by myself.
Our house is the one that’s on that lonesome road out of town that everyone says is haunted.
We had a rather lonesome vacation to London because the weather was bad and many of the museums were closed.
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