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say it: LOHN-suhm
lonesome is an adjective meaning "being the only one; single and isolated from others". It is pronounced /ˈloʊnsəm/ — LOHN-suhm. It carries 2 recorded senses.
marked by dejection from being alone
“felt sad and lonely”
“the loneliest night of the week”
“lonesome when her husband is away”
“spent a lonesome hour in the bar”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lonesome come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.