The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word DESERTED which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2010.
Lonely crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| DESERTED | 33 % | 8 |
| DESOLATE | 33 % | 8 |
| LORN | 17 % | 4 |
| ISOLATE | 17 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Lonely
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- lonesome
- lone
- alone
- solitary
- unsocial
- inaccessible
- unaccompanied
- unaccessible
- unfrequented
- dejected
- loneliness
- solitude
Crossword Answer definitions
DESERTED verb- To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary to a promise or obligation; to abandon; to forsake.
- To leave one's duty or post, especially to leave a military or naval unit without permission.
- (of a place) Abandoned, without people.
- Desolate
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result DESERTED
- Left behind
- Like Chernobyl
- Like a ghost town
- Ran out on
- Left
- Left in the lurch
- Like ghost towns
- Ran away.
- Like Goldsmith's "Village.”
- Forsook.
More clues leading to the result DESOLATE
- Brokenhearted
- Pretty bleak
- Barren
- Forsaken
- Lonely
- Like ghost towns
- Bleak
- Barren, as a landscape
- Uninhabited
- Descriptive of a ghost town.
More clues leading to the result LORN
- Bereft
- Forsaken
- Desolate
- Sad ending for love
- Bereft, old-style
- "... where was __ Urania / When Adonais died?": Shelley
- Forsaken.
- Without kindred or friends.
- Without kindred.
- Abandoned.