friendless
- adjective
- /ˈfrɛndləs/
- 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
Feeling sad because you are alone and miss other people
Feeling separated from other people and having little contact
Feeling sad when you are alone
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.