alone

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Adjective[change]

Positive
alone

Comparative
more alone

Superlative
most alone

  1. (not before a noun) If someone is alone, they are not with other people.
    She looked around to make sure that she was alone before opening the desk.
  2. (not before a noun) If someone is alone, they have no friends or people they know.
    He felt very alone in Canada and wanted to go home.

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Adverb[change]

Positive
alone

Comparative
none

Superlative
none

  1. If you do something alone, you do it without other people.
    She went walking alone because she wanted to think.
  2. When you talk about something alone, you mean only that thing.
    It will take weeks for the planning alone.
    We can't open it. The owner alone has the key.

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