estranged
40
6.7
- adjective
- /ɪˈstreɪndʒd/
:
distanciado
- My daughter Chloe and I are estranged.
- an estranged wife
- an estranged husband
- an estranged child
We shame people who are estranged from their families.
- We shame people who are estranged from their families.
- They then leave the home and they become estranged from their families.
- And the reason is because the right is more estranged from establishment institutions.
- She is dressed up as the daughter of someone's estranged sister.
- So they can use it to berate or criticize or mock that estranged person.
- In fact, when these relationships become estranged or people split up, they get divorced.
- Now, Ted's estranged wife, Jan, says he even reenacted the crime scene for her once.
- And when he delivers it, he finds out that one of the children there that's actually his kid and the wife and he have been estranged for years.
- I think that my estranged wife three times removed.
- He had many projects before he finds himself estranged from those.
- Allah, you name, you know, Rush Limbaugh, whoever and his niece comes into his life that he had never met from his estranged sister who he hated.
Examples
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And the worst part is, is that we're estranged from her family.
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So you're estranged from your parents?
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And she was estranged from her sister for how long?
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We shame people who are estranged from their families.
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After that, John and I were estranged.
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I continued to argue with my estranged wife, Robin, who, with our young son, had moved to Philadelphia.
Fiction book (1997) -
And we were pretty much estranged before that, so it really wasn't a huge blow.
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People nonetheless assured me that he was an effective mediator between the estranged parties when all else failed.
Academic text (2001) -
The film chronicles Sprague's personal journey with previously estranged family members through the Northwest Passage.
Blog text (9) -
After years of conflict, he found himself estranged from his childhood friends.
Synonyms
78
4.2
Feeling separated from other people and having little contact
61
4.9
Not friendly or warm, behaving in a quiet, cold way
27
5.5
A person who is not affected by personal feelings and shows little emotion
15
5.4
Only slightly connected to someone or something
1
4.7
Not involved or interested in something and not paying attention
Feeling alone and not part of a group or society
Antonyms
How Distant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Estranged comes from the same root as strange, which originally meant 'outside' or 'foreign'. So to be estranged is to feel like an 'outsider', distant and no longer close to someone you once loved.