companionless
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companionless (not comparable)
- 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.