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fatherless

fatherless adjective: without a (living) father.

Adjective

fatherless (not comparable)

  1. Without a (living) father.
    • “Homer’s Triple Bypass” has the potential to be the most depressing episode in the history of The Simpsons, if not television as whole. It is, after all, about a 36-year-old husband and father staring down death and the prospect of leaving his wife a young widow and his small children fatherless.2012 June 17, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club
  2. (figuratively) Without a known author or inventor.

fatherless meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Telugu and Kannada

fatherless in Tamil

தந்தையற்ற, ஆக்கியோன் அறியப்பெறாத

fatherless in Urdu

یتیم

fatherless in Telugu

without a living father
తండ్రిలేని taṇḍrilēni

fatherless in Kannada

ಅನಾಥ
More languagesFewer languages
fatherless in Gujarati
નબાપું nabāpũ
fatherless in Sanskrit
अनाथ anātha

Forms of fatherless

alternative formfatherlesse

Origin of fatherless

From Middle English faderles, federles, from Old English fæderlēas, from Proto-Germanic *fadērlausaz, equivalent to father + -less. Cognate with German vaterlos.

Words formed from fatherless

Questions about fatherless

What does fatherless mean?
Fatherless means without a (living) father.
What is fatherless in Tamil?
Fatherless in Tamil is தந்தையற்ற, ஆக்கியோன் அறியப்பெறாத. See Fatherless meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fatherless?
Fatherless is an adjective.

Words near fatherless in the dictionary

  1. fatherlandish
  2. fatherlandless
  3. fatherlands
  4. fatherlasher
  5. fatherlashers
  6. fatherless
  7. fatherlessness
  8. fatherlike
  9. fatherlily
  10. fatherline
  11. fatherlines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fatherless (page history and authors); fatherless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fatherless (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fatherless (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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