friendless
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5.3
- adjective
- /ˈfrɛndləs/
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sin amigos
- After moving to a new city, I felt completely friendless and isolated.
He is going to be, you know, friendless, condemned to death, gets killed.
- He is going to be, you know, friendless, condemned to death, gets killed.
- Why a solitary, friendless life must be beset by secret dangers and alarms.
- And Americans are, you know, have no friends and friendless in America.
- Some motherfuckers ain't they won disagreement away from being friendless, homeless.
Examples
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Baffled by social rules, isolated and friendless, he made up his own and applied them to others.
Blog text (2) -
So, since I had no friends, I assembled a motley crew of the friendless to help me construct my social network.
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Bad run of luck, and you could be friendless in a week.
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Well, where else could she go in her friendless condition?
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People like that usually find themselves friendless after they run out of people to be mean to.
Blog text (30) -
Her husband, Johnny Walker, had recently passed away, leaving her poor and friendless.
Fiction book (2001) -
Like emigrants leaving the old country in the 19th century, they often arrived friendless and unaccustomed to the habits of their new environment.
Academic text (2010) -
Suddenly, a wave of lonesomeness swept over him like a silent tide, and he felt alone and friendless, fatherless as well.
Fiction book (1994) -
You're virtually friendless, you barely talk to your family... and you've just lost the only woman in the world who's ever meant anything to you.
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Members of the jury, the woman who is before you in the dock is a foreigner, friendless and alone in a strange country, but a country that, thank heaven, has always prided itself on its passion for justice.
Synonyms
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1.0
Feeling sad because you are alone and miss other people
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4.2
Feeling separated from other people and having little contact
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3.5
Feeling sad when you are alone
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6.7
Feeling very unhappy and alone after a loss
Alone with no friends and no one to help or speak for you
Alone with no one to be with you
Feeling alone and not part of a group or society
How Connected
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word friendless combines friend and the ending -less, which means 'without'. So friendless literally means 'without friends' and you can think of it as someone who is alone or has no friends.