Modifying Another Word

• so: It must have been so lonesome, you must have felt so sad, Trying to evaluate the good from the bad.

• very: The opening ' You Will Miss Me When I Burn ' is very affecting, very lonesome sounding.

• rather: His customer, meanwhile, endures a rather lonesome and difficult Parisian vacation.

• pretty: Trudy talked about living away from the island: It was pretty lonesome at first.

Preposition: for

• bit: Last weekend I went off on my lonesome for a bit of a walk.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• feel: But I feel a bit lonesome here, for these boys are since my time.

Modifies a noun

• dove: I think I'm at a week, having bought Lonesome Dove last week.

• cowboy: Another romantic, lonesome cowboy with a heartache in every bar, pure gold in all his songs.

• tonight: The first is a line from Elvis Presley's 1961 hit song Are You Lonesome Tonight?

• sound: They treated us to some superb trio singing with a spine-tingling high, lonesome sound.

• day: Angelina had begun by singing Blind Willie McTell's Lonesome Day.

• pine: The idea of the lonesome pine also survives in the title of a song made famous by Laurel and Hardy.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: Its handle is the color of big sky, which makes me feel lonesome.

• get: Getting lonesome, oh, so lonesome, Emily kept up a search for that rat, or any living creature.