loner

noun/ˈloʊnər/

Frequency rank: #12,146 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

a person who prefers to be alone and avoids the company of others.

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Example sentence

People at school always thought of him as a total loner, since he preferred to spend his lunch breaks reading alone.

Synonyms & related words

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