Houseless

Quick meaning: Houseless is an adjective meaning (of a person) Lacking a house, or, by extension, a residence or place of refuge in general; thus, having no home.

Meaning

(of a person) Lacking a house, or, by extension, a residence or place of refuge in general; thus, having no home.

More Meanings

1. (of a person) Lacking a permanent place of residence but not a ‘home’ in the broader sense, for example in the form of a community.
2. (of a place) Containing no house or place of refuge; wild or inhospitable.

Example Sentences

No, I'm not… homeless. I'm just…houseless. Not the same thing, right?

And methought the dream smote up the roof above my bed, and the roof yawned to the naked air of the midnight, that laboured with fiery signs, and a bearded star travelling in the houseless dark.

He said that he was houseless but not homeless because he went to school in that community, was registered to vote there, and had been living in the teepee for seventeen years. He said that teepee was his home.

Some advocates for unhoused people have insisted that they be called houseless rather than homeless, but even within the community of advocates there is not universal agreement on this terminological prescription.

Synonyms for houseless

Depending on context, synonyms include homeless, roofless.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include roofless, homeless, hotelless, shelterless, hutless, dispossessed.

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