kinless
8.8
Without any living family members
- adjective
- /ˈkɪn.ləs/
:
sin parientes
- And four years later he had been free almost eighteen months, and he thought it was all: old Molly dead and hers and Lucas's married daughter moved with her husband to Detroit, and he heard now at last by chance remote and belated hearsay that Lucas was living alone in the house, solitary, kinless, and intractable, apparently not only without friends even in his own race but proud of it.
Examples
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"They were kinless," and this meant that they were "socially dead."
Academic text (2002) -
You're not kinless.
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How could I possibly be kinless?
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A man could be kinless.
Fiction book (1999) -
After losing his last living relative, he felt completely kinless.
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She was kinless, living in a city where she knew no one.
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Being kinless in such a large family-oriented community made him feel isolated.
Synonyms
unrelated
vskinless
10
3.5
Not members of the same family by birth or marriage
refers to having no living relatives rather than a pairwise relation
unconnected
vskinless
1
5.0
Not related by birth or family ties
describes having no living relatives rather than just not related to someone
9.9
A person with no living family to welcome them
is the modern neutral term for the same lack of relatives
clanless
vskinless
6.9
Not part of a clan or family group
means lacking living relatives rather than lacking clan membership or group ties
Antonyms
How Closely Related
Surface Forms
kinless positive
Morphology
Etymology
Kinless is easy to remember: kin means 'family' and the ending -less means 'without', so kinless means 'without family'.