Other forms: loners
A loner is a person who prefers their own company. A natural loner, something of a loner, a quiet loner.
The word has been damaged by newspapers, which reach for it after every terrible event until it sounds like a warning sign — most loners are simply people who enjoy solitude and are perfectly well. Preferring your own company is not the same as being lonely.
1nounlonerA person who prefers their own company.
“He was a loner at school who spent his breaks reading in the library.”
loner is a person.
From lone + -er.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA