companionless

English

Etymology

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.
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