fakir vs solitary

fakir

noun
  • An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic. 

  • Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature. 

  • A faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms. 

solitary

noun
  • One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchorite, hermit or recluse. 

  • Solitary confinement. 

  • The state of being solitary; solitude 

adj
  • Performed, passed, or endured alone 

  • Living or being by oneself; alone; having no companion present 

  • Not much visited or frequented; remote from society 

  • Single; individual; sole. 

  • gloomy; dismal, because of not being inhabited. 

  • Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted 

  • Not associated with others of the same kind. 

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