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familyless

familyless adjective: without a family.

Adjective

familyless (not comparable)

  1. Without a family.
    • […] the houseless, familyless old man staggered off a vagabond in crape; his every woe unreverenced; his grey head a scorn to flaxen curls!1851, Herman Melville, chapter 112, in Moby-Dick, page 539
    • […] 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,1972, John Gardner, The Sunlight Dialogues, page 11

Forms of familyless

alternative formfamililess

Origin of familyless

From family + -less.

Words formed from familyless

Questions about familyless

What does familyless mean?
Familyless means without a family.
What part of speech is familyless?
Familyless is an adjective.

Words near familyless in the dictionary

  1. familying
  2. familyish
  3. familyism
  4. familyist
  5. familyists
  6. familyless
  7. familylessness
  8. familylike
  9. familymaxx
  10. familymaxxed
  11. familymaxxes

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