alone
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Is alone a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (predicatively, chiefly in the negative) Lacking peers who share one's beliefs, experiences, practices, etc.Examples: "Senator Craddock wants to abolish the estate tax, and she's not alone."; "I always organize my Halloween candy before eating it. Am I alone in this?"; "Hungary's leader is not alone in eastern and southern Europe, where democratically elected populist strongmen increasingly dominate, deploying the power of the state and a battery of instruments of intimidation to crush dissent, demonise opposition, tame the media and tailor the system to their ends."not-comparablepredicative
2. (obsolete) Apart from, or exclusive of, others.Examples: "There are proofs enough in History, and first that beautiful Hynes, so much beloved by Charles the seventh King of France, who valued the alone possession of her Love at so high a rate, that[…]"; "God, […] by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being."not-comparableobsoletepredicative
3. (obsolete) Mere; consisting of nothing further.Examples: "and therefore all Killing, Banishing, Fining, Imprisoning, and other such things, which Men are afflicted with, for the alone exercise of their Conscience, or difference in Worship or Opinion, proceedeth from the spirit of Cain, the Murderer, and is contrary to the Truth;"not-comparableobsoletepredicative
4. (obsolete) Unique; rare; matchless.Examples: "Pardon me, Proteus, all I can is nothing / To her, whose worth makes other worthies nothing; / She is alone."not-comparableobsoletepredicative
adv (English)
1. Focus adverb, typically modifying a noun and occurring immediately after it.Examples: "Her wardrobe is huge. She has three racks for blazers alone."; "The first sentence alone sold me on the book."; "In the first place, though Lady Burton published comparatively little, she was a voluminous writer, and she left behind her such a mass of letters and manuscripts that the sorting of them alone was a formidable task."broadlynot-comparablepredicative
Definition source: Wiktionary