Definition of solitary

"solitary" in the noun sense

1. solitary confinement, solitary

confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners

"he was held in solitary"

2. hermit, recluse, solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte

one who lives in solitude

"solitary" in the adjective sense

1. lone, lonely, solitary

characterized by or preferring solitude

"a lone wolf"

"a lonely existence"

"a man of a solitary disposition"

"a solitary walk"

2. nongregarious, nonsocial, solitary

of plants and animals not growing or living in groups or colonies

"solitary bees"

3. alone, lone, lonely, solitary

lacking companions or companionship

"he was alone when we met him"

"she is alone much of the time"

"the lone skier on the mountain"

"a lonely fisherman stood on a tuft of gravel"

"a lonely soul"

"a solitary traveler"

4. lone, lonesome, only, sole, solitary

being the only one single and isolated from others

"the lone doctor in the entire county"

"a lonesome pine"

"an only child"

"the sole heir"

"the sole example"

"a solitary instance of cowardice"

"a solitary speck in the sky"

5. lonely, solitary, unfrequented

devoid of creatures

"a lonely crossroads"

"a solitary retreat"

"a trail leading to an unfrequented lake"

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Quotations for solitary

Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive. [ Lamartine ]

The stars are forth, the moon above the tops
Of the snow-shining mountains - Beautiful!
I linger yet with nature, for the night
Hath been to me a more familiar face
Than that of man; and in her starry shade
Of dim and solitary loveliness,
I learned the language of another world. [ Byron ]

True friends have no solitary joy or sorrow. [ William Ellery Channing ]

A solitary man is either a brute or an angel. [ Proverb ]

Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel. [ Young ]

A solitary blessing few can find,
Our joys with those we love are intertwined,
And he whose wakeful tenderness removes
The obstructing thorn that wounds the breast he loves,
Smooths not another's rugged path alone,
But scatters roses to adorn his own.

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves. [ Lowell ]

Ah! wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company! [ Cowley ]

Heavy sorrow is silent, and the deepest mourning is the most solitary. [ Charles Buxton ]

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout. [ Johnson ]

In her starry shade of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn the language of another world. [ Byron ]

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself. [ Cecil ]

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful. [ Cicero ]

If a traveler does not meet with one who is his better or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool. [ Max Muller ]

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves. [ George Eliot ]

It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. [ Washington Irving ]

The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself. [ Froude ]

A loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its Eden in the wilderness and solitary place, and sows with flowers the gray desolation of rock and mosses. [ Whittier ]

How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light! [ Dewey ]

Without woman, man would be rough, rude, solitary, and would ignore all the graces which are but the smiles of love. Woman weaves about him the flowers of life, as the vines of the forest decorate the trunk of the oak with their fragrant garlands. [ Chateaubriand ]

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God, and secret passages running deep beneath external Nature give their thoughts intercourse with higher intelligences, which strengthens and consoles them, and of which the labourers on the surface do not even dream. [ Longfellow ]

Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Domitian said, that nothing was more grateful; Aristotle afirmed that beauty was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature, and Ovid, alluding to him, calls it a favor bestowed by the gods. [ From the Italian ]

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age. [ Emerson ]

Let us now suppose that in the mind of each man there is an aviary of all sorts of birds some flocking together apart from the rest, others in small groups, others solitary, flying anywhere and everywhere. . . . We may suppose that the birds are kinds of knowledge, and that when we were children, this receptacle was empty; whenever a man has gotten and detained in the enclosure a kind of knowledge, he may be said to have learned or discovered the thing which is the subject of the knowledge: and this is to know. [ Dialogues, Theaetetus ]

solitary in Scrabble®

The word solitary is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters solitary:

SOLITARY
(108)
SOLITARY
(108)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

tailors, trysail

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word solitary

SOLITARY
(108)
SOLITARY
(108)
SOLITARY
(72)
SOLITARY
(72)
SOLITARY
(45)
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SOLITARY
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In solitary

SOLITARY
(108)
SOLITARY
(108)
TRYSAIL
(92 = 42 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(90 = 40 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(86 = 36 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(83 = 33 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(83 = 33 + 50)
TRYSAIL
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TRYSAIL
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TRYSAIL
(83 = 33 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(83 = 33 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(83 = 33 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(80 = 30 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(80 = 30 + 50)
TAILORS
(78 = 28 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(78 = 28 + 50)
TAILORS
(74 = 24 + 50)
TAILORS
(74 = 24 + 50)
TAILORS
(74 = 24 + 50)
TAILORS
(74 = 24 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(74 = 24 + 50)
TAILORS
(74 = 24 + 50)
TAILORS
(74 = 24 + 50)
TAILORS
(74 = 24 + 50)
TAILORS
(74 = 24 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(74 = 24 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(74 = 24 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(74 = 24 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(72 = 22 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(72 = 22 + 50)
SOLITARY
(72)
TRYSAIL
(72 = 22 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(72 = 22 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(72 = 22 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(72 = 22 + 50)
SOLITARY
(72)
TRYSAIL
(72 = 22 + 50)
TAILORS
(71 = 21 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(70 = 20 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(70 = 20 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(70 = 20 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(70 = 20 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(70 = 20 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(70 = 20 + 50)
TAILORS
(68 = 18 + 50)
TAILORS
(68 = 18 + 50)
TAILORS
(68 = 18 + 50)
TAILORS
(68 = 18 + 50)
TAILORS
(68 = 18 + 50)
TAILORS
(68 = 18 + 50)
TAILORS
(66 = 16 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(66 = 16 + 50)
TAILORS
(66 = 16 + 50)
TAILORS
(66 = 16 + 50)
TAILORS
(66 = 16 + 50)
TAILORS
(66 = 16 + 50)
TAILORS
(66 = 16 + 50)
TAILORS
(66 = 16 + 50)
TAILORS
(66 = 16 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(65 = 15 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(65 = 15 + 50)
TAILORS
(64 = 14 + 50)
TAILORS
(64 = 14 + 50)
TAILORS
(64 = 14 + 50)
TAILORS
(64 = 14 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(64 = 14 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(64 = 14 + 50)
TAILORS
(64 = 14 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(63 = 13 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(62 = 12 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(62 = 12 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(62 = 12 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(62 = 12 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(62 = 12 + 50)
TAILORS
(61 = 11 + 50)
TRYSAIL
(61 = 11 + 50)
TAILORS
(61 = 11 + 50)
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(61 = 11 + 50)
TAILORS
(60 = 10 + 50)
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(59 = 9 + 50)
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(59 = 9 + 50)
TAILORS
(59 = 9 + 50)
TAILORS
(59 = 9 + 50)
TAILORS
(58 = 8 + 50)
SOLITARY
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SOLITARY
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RIYALS
(39)
STYROL
(39)
ARTILY
(39)
STYLIA
(39)
ROYALS
(39)
ROSILY
(39)
STYLAR
(39)
LYRIST
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SOLITARY
(36)
SOLITARY
(36)
STRAY
(36)
ROILY
(36)
SALTY
(36)
STORY
(36)
SATYR
(36)
TRAYS
(36)
SOLITARY
(36)
SOLITARY
(36)
ARTSY
(36)
SOLITARY
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SILTY
(36)
SLATY
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ARTILY
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ROSILY
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AIRY
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STAY
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SLAY
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TRAYS
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STRAY
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LYRIST
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STRAY
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ROYAL
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solitary in Words With Friends™

The word solitary is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters solitary:

TRYSAIL
(89 = 54 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

tailors, trysail

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word solitary

SOLITARY
(78)
SOLITARY
(78)
SOLITARY
(57)
SOLITARY
(56)
SOLITARY
(51)
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(51)
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(48)
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(12)
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(12)

The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In solitary

TRYSAIL
(89 = 54 + 35)
TRYSAIL
(83 = 48 + 35)
SOLITARY
(78)
SOLITARY
(78)
TAILORS
(77 = 42 + 35)
TAILORS
(77 = 42 + 35)
TRYSAIL
(77 = 42 + 35)
TRYSAIL
(77 = 42 + 35)
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(77 = 42 + 35)
TRYSAIL
(75 = 40 + 35)
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(75 = 40 + 35)
TRYSAIL
(75 = 40 + 35)
TRYSAIL
(71 = 36 + 35)
TRYSAIL
(71 = 36 + 35)
TAILORS
(71 = 36 + 35)
TAILORS
(71 = 36 + 35)
TAILORS
(71 = 36 + 35)
TRYSAIL
(71 = 36 + 35)
TRYSAIL
(71 = 36 + 35)
TRYSAIL
(71 = 36 + 35)
TAILORS
(71 = 36 + 35)
TAILORS
(67 = 32 + 35)
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(67 = 32 + 35)
TRYSAIL
(67 = 32 + 35)
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TAILORS
(65 = 30 + 35)
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(65 = 30 + 35)
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(65 = 30 + 35)
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TRYSAIL
(63 = 28 + 35)
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(61 = 26 + 35)
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TRYSAIL
(57 = 22 + 35)
TRYSAIL
(57 = 22 + 35)
SOLITARY
(57)
TRYSAIL
(57 = 22 + 35)
TRYSAIL
(57 = 22 + 35)
SOLITARY
(56)
TRYSAIL
(55 = 20 + 35)
TAILORS
(55 = 20 + 35)
TAILORS
(55 = 20 + 35)
TRYSAIL
(55 = 20 + 35)
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TRYSAIL
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TRYSAIL
(53 = 18 + 35)
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(52 = 17 + 35)
RIYALS
(51)
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(51)
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(51)
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(51 = 16 + 35)
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(51 = 16 + 35)
STYLIA
(51)
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(51)
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(51 = 16 + 35)
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(51 = 16 + 35)
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TRYSAIL
(51 = 16 + 35)
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ROYALS
(51)
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(51 = 16 + 35)
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(51)
ARTILY
(51)
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(51)
TRYSAIL
(50 = 15 + 35)
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(49 = 14 + 35)
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(48 = 13 + 35)
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SOLITARY
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(48 = 13 + 35)
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TAILORS
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TRYSAIL
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TRYSAIL
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(45)
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(45)
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(45)
ARTILY
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TAILORS
(45 = 10 + 35)
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TAILORS
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STYLIA
(45)
ROSILY
(45)
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(45)
LYRIST
(45)
TRYSAIL
(45 = 10 + 35)
STYROL
(45)
STYROL
(45)
TAILORS
(45 = 10 + 35)
LYRIST
(45)
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(45)
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(44)
TAILORS
(44 = 9 + 35)
TAILORS
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(44)
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(44 = 9 + 35)
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TAILORS
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SLATY
(42)
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STYLAR
(39)
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ARTILY
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STYLI
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Words containing the sequence solitary

Words that start with solitary (1 word)

Words with solitary in them (1 word)

Words that end with solitary (1 word)

Word Growth involving solitary

Shorter words in solitary

it lit

so sol soli

ar tar

ta tar

Longer words containing solitary

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