What does familyless mean?
Familyless means Without a family..
Familyless
Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Meaning
Without a family..
Example Sentences
[…] the houseless, familyless old man staggered off a vagabond in crape; his every woe unreverenced; his grey head a scorn to flaxen curls!
[…] they all sat in one small room with a radio playing foreign music, three other sailors and himself and the four brown, queerly familyless women (it seemed to him) in their slippery dresses and no underwear,
They are famililess, solitary, nonconforming individuals, with no ties to anything but the Legion.
For weeks Seldon recounted excitedly to me (and, of course, to the entire school) every detail of my nocturnal attempt to run away from home and be taken in by the nuns as a familyless child […]
Synonyms for familyless
Antonyms for familyless
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Word Forms
- famililess
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[…] the houseless, familyless old man staggered off a vagabond in crape; his every woe unreverenced; his grey head a scorn to flaxen curls!
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