feeling motherless
- idiom
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sentirse huérfano
- After her mother died, she spent months feeling motherless and alone.
Examples
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After her mother's passing, she has been feeling motherless.
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Even surrounded by friends, he was quietly feeling motherless during the holidays.
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The novel's protagonist is feeling motherless as she tries to rebuild her life.
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He often expresses how feeling motherless has affected his life.
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After her mother died, she felt deep sadness, feeling motherless and isolated.
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Even in a crowd, he constantly experienced the sadness of feeling motherless during family gatherings.
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The character in the story struggles with feeling motherless as she navigates her new life without her mother.
Synonyms
Feeling very sad after someone you love dies
Antonyms
How Grieving
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines the noun 'feeling' (an emotional state) with the adjective 'motherless' (lacking a mother), so its meaning — experiencing the absence or loss of a mother — is directly derivable from the constituents. This is a regular, compositional combination that follows standard English patterns and is likely to be obvious to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Feeling motherless comes from the simple image of being motherless, without a mother to care for you, so you feel lonely and unprotected. That's why it means 'experiencing deep emotional loss'.