Living alone, or by one's self or by itself; without companions or associates; habitually inclined to avoid company.All by one's self; without companions; unattended.Marked by solitude; especially, remote from society; unfrequented; retired; secluded; lonely: as, a solitary glen.Free from the sounds of human life; still; dismal.Having a sense of loneliness; lonesome.Retiring; diffident.Passed without company; shared by no companions; lonely.Single; sole; only, or only one: as, a solitary instance; a solitary example.In botany, one only in a place; separate: as, a solitary stipule.In anatomy, single; separate; not clustered; not agminate or gathered into patches; simple; not compound: as, the solitary follicles of the intestine.In zoöl.:Not social, sociable, or gregarious: noting species living habitually alone, or in pairs only.Simple; not compound, aggregate, or colonial: as, solitary ascidians. See Simplices.n. One who lives alone or in solitude; an anchorite; a recluse; a hermit.In astronomy, noting certain stars which have no conspicuous neighbors (a Hydræ, for instance), or stars which are not members of a binary system, visual or spectroscopic. Called by W. Herschel intersystematical.