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solitary confinement

US pronunciation

American soundsolitary confinement

solitaryconfinement

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Clear final sound

solitary - confinement -> solitary confinement

Myanmar meaning

သီးခြားထောင့်၏ မြေတိုက်တွင် တစ်ဦးတည်း သီးခြားထားရှိခြင်း။

Full entry

solitary /'sɒlǝtri; US -teri/ adj

၁။ (က) တစ်ဦးတည်း။ တစ်ခုတည်း။ အထီးကျန်။ a solitary walk ❍ lead a solitary life ❍ one solitary tree on the horizon. (ခ) တစ်ကိုယ်တော်။ တစ်ကိုယ်ရေ တစ်ကာယ။ a solitary kind of person ❍ Tigers are solitary animals.
၂။ ထီးတည်းဖြစ်၍ချောင်ကျသော။ a solitary island/valley. ❍ ALONE
၃။ (esp in negative sentences and questions) တစ်ခုတလေ။ တစ်ယောက်တလေ။ I can't think of a solitary occasion (ie not even one) when this happened.
n
၁။ [U](infml )= SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
၂။ [C] (fml ) ထီးတည်းနေသူ။ ဧကစာကျင့်သူ။ ရသေ့။ religious solitaries.
❏ solitariness n [U] ထီးတည်း။ အဖော်မဲ့ခြင်း။ the solitariness of the landscape ❍ the enforced solitariness of some old people.
❏ solitary confinement (also infml solitary ) n [U] တိုက်ပိတ်(ပြစ်ဒဏ်)။ be put/kept/held in solitary confinement.

More examples

A largely solitary bird
The solitary inhabitant of the island
A solitary policeman stood at the gate.
Mathematical research is a largely solitary pursuit.
He didn’t say a single solitary word to me all evening.

Synonyms

lonely, private, retiring, introverted, friendless, all by one's lonesome, alone, aloof, anchorite, anomic, antisocial, autist, bastille, batching it, brooder, bullpen, by itself/oneself, by oneself, cloistered, companionless, deserted, desolate, distant, eremetic, eremite, forsaken, friar, hermit, hermitical, hidden, holding cell, in solitary, independent, individual, introvert, isolated, jail, jailhouse, lockdown, lone, lone hand, loner, lonesome, lorn, me and my shadow, me myself and I, misanthropic, monk, non-conformist, odd man out, offish, on one's own, only, out-of-the-way, outside of human society anchoret, particular, pillarist, pokey, recluse, reclusive, remote, reserved, retired, rogue elephant, secluded, self-contained, self-observer, self-sufficient, separate, sequestered, shag, single, single; unsociable, singular, slammer, sole, solitaire, solitarian, solitarily, solitary confinement, solo, stag, standoffish, stylite, the hole, traveling light, troglodyte, unaccompanied, unaided, unapproachable, unassisted, unattended, uncompanionable, unescorted, unfrequented, unique, unsociable, unsocial, up the river, wallflower, widowed, withdrawn

Antonyms

accompanied, combined, common, general, ordinary, sociable, together

Cross references

lonely private retiring introverted friendless all by one's lonesome alone aloof anchorite anomic antisocial autist bastille batching it brooder bullpen by itself/oneself by oneself cloistered companionless deserted desolate distant eremetic eremite forsaken friar hermit

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