alonest

English

Etymology

alone +‎ -est

Adjective

alonest

1. (nonstandard) Most alone or isolated.
   • 1922, Elizabeth Frazer, The secret partner:

     The alonest man on the face of the globe! I was stopping in a cheap lodging downtown, in a dreary, drab little cell of a bedroom...

   • 1967, Piri Thomas, Down these mean streets:

     I was the alonest. I heard the walking of shoes and I looked in the direction of the noise. It was the counterman.

   • 2000, Gerald Nachman, Raised on Radio:

     Crosby declined and, as Winchell walked away, he seemed to Crosby "the alonest man I ever did see."

Anagrams

• Salento, etalons, lean-tos, loanest, tolanes