companionless

English

Etymology

From companion +‎ -less.

Adjective

companionless (not comparable)

1. Without a companion; friendless, alone.
   • 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXII, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 179:

     When he got abroad at last he was hardly grateful that he had been spared, remembering how lonely was his estate, how companionless and forlorn he was.

Derived terms

• companionlessness