Magányos

Magányos is a Hungarian adjective meaning lonely, solitary, or desolate. It describes a state or quality of isolation in people, places, or circumstances and is used in everyday language as well as in literature to convey a sense of loneliness or apartness.

The word is built from the noun magány, loneliness, with the adjectival suffix -os, a productive pattern in Hungarian that forms words denoting a characteristic or condition. As an adjective, magányos typically agrees with the noun it modifies in number and case.

Common usages include magányos férfi (lonely man), magányos utca (lonely street), and magányos időszak (a lonely period). In figurative settings it can describe non-physical isolation as well, such as magányos hangulat (a mood of loneliness) or magányos ember a társadalomban (a socially isolated person). The term can also appear in literary or lyrical contexts to emphasize solitude or estrangement.

Magányos may also occur as a rare Hungarian surname. When used as a surname, it is capitalized as a proper noun and does not function as an ordinary descriptive adjective within a sentence.

Related linguistic and cultural notes include the base noun magány (loneliness) and various phrases that express solitude in Hungarian. The term is closely tied to themes of isolation in Hungarian language and literature, where it commonly conveys emotional or social distance.