friendless
/ˈfrɛndləs/
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dialectal/ˈfrɪndləs/
friendless adjective: without friends (without a friend).
Adjective
friendless (not comparable)
- Without friends (without a friend).
- friendless homebody
- Someone is friendless and cannot find their way / So I'll keep my light in my window / I want to be there to help restore their faith / So I'll keep my light in my window1974, Caston & Majors, “I'll Keep My Light In My Window”, in Caston & Majors
- Antonyms:
- enemyless
friendless meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
friendless in Urdu
- بےکس, خوار, لطف
friendless in Bengali
- without friends
- বন্ধুহীন bondhuhin
friendless in Malayalam
- by oneself, alone, all alone
- സ്ഹേിതരില്ലാത്ത, ചങ്ങാതിമാരില്ലാത്ത, മിത്രവിഹീനമായ, കൂട്ടുകാരില്ലാത്ത, നിർബന്ധു, ബന്ധുവിഹീനമായ
friendless in Kannada
- ಅಸಹಾಯ
More languagesFewer languages
- friendless in Sanskrit
- अमित्र amitra
Antonyms of friendless
Origin of friendless
From Middle English frendles, from Old English frēondlēas. By surface analysis, friend + -less.
Words formed from friendless
Questions about friendless
- What does friendless mean?
- Friendless means without friends (without a friend).
- What is friendless in Urdu?
- Friendless in Urdu is بےکس, خوار, لطف. See Friendless meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is friendless?
- Friendless is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce friendless?
- Friendless is pronounced /ˈfrɛndləs/.
Words near friendless in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: friendless (page history and authors); friendless (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); friendless (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); friendless (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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