| Main Entry: | homeless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | displaced |
Synonyms: |
abandoned, banished, deported, derelict, desolate, destitute, disinherited, displaced, dispossessed, down-and-out, estranged, exiled, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, houseless, itinerant, outcast, refugee, uncared-for, unhoused, unsettled, unwelcome, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, without a roof |
Antonyms: |
settled |
| Main Entry: | forlorn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless, inconsolable |
Synonyms: |
abandoned, alone, bereft, blue*, cheerless, comfortless, cynical, defenseless, depressed, deserted, desolate, despairing, desperate, despondent, destitute, destroyed, disconsolate, down and out, dragging, forgotten, forsaken, friendless, fruitless, futile, godforsaken, helpless, homeless, in the dumps, lonely, lonesome, lost, miserable, oppressed, pathetic, pessimistic, pitiable, pitiful, solitary, tragic, unhappy, vain, weighed down, woebegone, wretched |
| Notes: | lonely adds to solitary a suggestion of longing for companionship, while lonesome heightens the suggestion of sadness; forlorn and desolate are even more isolated and sad |
Antonyms: |
cheerful, comforted, consolable, happy, hopeful, joyful, pleased |
| Main Entry: | impecunious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poverty-stricken |
Synonyms: |
beggared, broke*, cleaned out, destitute, dirt poor, homeless, impoverished, indigent, insolvent, necessitous, needy, penniless, penurious, poor, strapped, unprosperous |
Antonyms: |
moneyed, rich, wealthy |
| Main Entry: | indigent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor |
Synonyms: |
beggared, busted, destitute, down and out, flat broke, hard up, homeless, impecunious, impoverished, in want, necessitous, needy, penniless, penurious, poverty-stricken |
Antonyms: |
rich, wealthy |
| Main Entry: | lonely |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | feeling friendless, forlorn |
Synonyms: |
abandoned, alone, apart, by oneself, comfortless, companionless, deserted, desolate, destitute, disconsolate, down, empty, estranged, forsaken, godforsaken, homeless, isolated, left, lone, lonesome, outcast, reclusive, rejected, renounced, secluded, single, solitary, troglodytic, unattended, unbefriended, uncherished, unsocial, withdrawn |
Antonyms: |
befriended, loved, unlonely |
| Main Entry: | stranded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | marooned, abandoned |
Synonyms: |
aground, ashore, beached, cast away, godforsaken, grounded, helpless, high and dry, homeless, left at the altar, left in the lurch, on the rocks, out in left field, passed up, penniless, run aground, shipwrecked, sidelined, sidetracked, wrecked |
Antonyms: |
found |
| Main Entry: | stray |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abandoned, wandering |
Synonyms: |
devious, erratic, homeless, lost, roaming, roving, vagrant |
| Main Entry: | lorn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lonely |
Synonyms: |
abandoned, alone, apart, by oneself, comfortless, companionless, deserted, desolate, destitute, disconsolate, down, empty, estranged, forlorn, forsaken, godforsaken, homeless, isolated, left, lone, lonesome, outcast, reclusive, rejected, renounced, secluded, single, solitary, troglodytic, unattended, unbefriended, uncherished, unsocial, withdrawn |