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friendless
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Friendless \Friend"less\, a. [AS. fre['o]ndle['a]s.] Destitute of friends; forsaken. -- Friend"less*ness , n.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Driving away into the city streets, she'd never felt so alone or so friendless in her entire life. ▪ The world can be a violent, cruel, sad, friendless place: indeed it is for many people. ▪ There I was always effortlessly ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. excluded from a society [syn: outcast ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Without friends.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English freondleas "friendless," also "orphan," and, as a noun, "an outlaw;" see friend (n.) + -less . Related: Friendlessly ; friendlessness .
Usage examples of friendless.
Why was it, he said, that all the humanitarians, the reformers, the guilds, the ethical groups, the agnostics, the male and female knights, sustained him, and only a few of the poor and friendless knocked, by his solicitation, at the supernatural door of life?
At first he talked of hospital in Cairns for the remainder of her pregnancy, but after a long think about her husbandless, friendless situation he decided she would be better off with Luddie and Anne, who did care for her.
Wifeless, friendless, he plodded through his 4r4ALL TMNGS WISE AND WONDERFUL life , endlessly milking, feeding and mucking out, and waiting, I suspected with diminishing hope for something to happen.
Friendless and without family, yet she could not be such a niminy piminy as she might appear.
Chronicle contained an article on my parrot, in which the writer remarked that the ladies whom the bird insulted must be very poor and friendless, or they would have bought it at once, and have thus prevented the thing from becoming the talk of the town.
For I had been revolving many plans, which had one sole aim and object, to keep near me this lad, whose companionship and help seemed to me, brotherless, sisterless, and friendless as I was, the very thing that would give me an interest in life, or, at least, make it drag on less wearily.
I did not long since perish for want, and leave my poor little wretches, two destitute, helpless, friendless orphans, to the care, or rather to the cruelty, of the world.
Sparks needed her: She imagined him sick or hungry, moneyless, friendless, starving.
I, a poor, friendless, patronless artist, can thus indulge myself by forgetting the present.
From the sensations I then had, I felt an inner conviction of the liveliest kind, that without some powerful and reviving stimulus I should either have died on the spot, or should at least have sunk to a point of exhaustion from which all reascent under my friendless circumstances would soon have become hopeless.
The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
She had never fully expressed her deep gratitude for all that Andrea and Matt had done for her and Bob when they arrived in Tahoe, friendless and practically destitute.
Why was it, he said, that all the humanitarians, the reformers, the guilds, the ethical groups, the agnostics, the male and female knights, sustained him, and only a few of the poor and friendless knocked, by his solicitation, at the supernatural door of life?
Guster falls into a staring and vacant state, compounded of a stunned admiration of Mr. Chadband and pity for the friendless outcast whose condition touches her nearly.
Karsus wanted Candlemas to dothe friendless mage wandered the halls, laboratories, workshops, animal collections, and libraries.