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solitude - 11 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | solitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aloneness |
| Synonyms: | confinement, desert, detachment, emptiness, isolation, loneliness, privacy, quarantine, seclusion, silence, waste, wasteland, wilderness, withdrawal, loneness, lonesomeness, peace and quiet, reclusiveness, retirement, separateness, solitariness |
| Antonyms: | companionship, friendship, togetherness |
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| Main Entry: | solitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Main Entry: | desert |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wasteland; dry area |
| Synonyms: | barren, solitude, wild, wilderness, Sahara, arid region, badland, barren land, flats, lava bed, sand dunes, wilds |
| Notes: | that impoverished stretch of sand called a desert can only afford one 's'; that rich gooey extra thing at the end of the meal called a dessert indulges in two of them |
| Antonyms: | wetland |
| Main Entry: | isolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | seclusion |
| Synonyms: | concealment, confinement, desolation, detachment, exile, hiding, privacy, quarantine, retreat, segregation, solitude, withdrawal, aloneness, aloofness, beleaguerment, monkhood, privateness, reclusion, reclusiveness, remoteness, seclusiveness, sequestration |
| Main Entry: | loneliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | isolation |
| Synonyms: | alienation, desolation, heartache, seclusion, solitude, withdrawal, aloneness, forlornness, friendlessness, lonesomeness, remoteness, solitariness |
| Main Entry: | privacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | solitude, secrecy |
| Synonyms: | aloofness, clandestineness, concealment, confidentiality, isolation, one's space, penetralia, privateness, quiet, retirement, retreat, seclusion, separateness, separation, sequestration, solitude |
| Antonyms: | publicity, publicness, sociableness |
| Main Entry: | seclusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | isolation |
| Synonyms: | blockade, concealment, desolation, detachment, hiding, privacy, quarantine, retreat, separation, shelter, solitude, withdrawal, aloneness, aloofness, beleaguerment, privateness, reclusion, reclusiveness, remoteness, retirement, seclusiveness, separateness, sequestration |
| Antonyms: | open, public |
| Main Entry: | secrecy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concealment |
| Synonyms: | confidence, dark, darkness, hiding, hush, isolation, mystery, privacy, reticence, seclusion, silence, solitude, stealth, suppression, clandestineness, confidentiality, covertness, furtiveness, retirement, secretiveness, secretness, surreptitiousness |
| Antonyms: | honesty, publicity, revelation, forthrightness, openness |
| Main Entry: | desolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uninhabitated area; barrenness |
| Synonyms: | bareness, desert, devastation, dissolution, extinction, isolation, loneliness, ruin, solitude, waste, wreck, bleakness, forlornness, solitariness, wildness |
| Antonyms: | civilization |
| Main Entry: | retreat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place one goes for peace |
| Synonyms: | ark, asylum, cell, cloister, convent, cover, covert, defense, den, habitat, harbor, haunt, haven, hermitage, hideaway, ivory tower*, port, privacy, refuge, resort, safe house, sanctuary, seclusion, security, shelter, solitude, adytum, hiding place, retirement, safe place |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | waste |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | land that is uncultivated |
| Synonyms: | barren, bog, brush, bush, desert, fen, jungle, marsh, moor, quagmire, solitude, swamp, tundra, void, wasteland, wild, wilderness, badlands, brushland, dust bowl, marshland, wilds |
| Antonyms: | development |
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