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bereft

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Main Entry: bereft
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lacking; missing

Synonyms:

beggared, bereaved, cut off, deprived, destitute, devoid, dispossessed, divested, fleeced, impoverished, left without, minus, naked, parted from, robbed, shorn, stripped, wanting, without

Antonyms:

full, happy
Main Entry: bereave
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: deprive

Synonyms:

dispossess, divest, leave, oust, rob, sadden, strip
Main Entry: deprive
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: keep or take away something wanted, needed

Synonyms:

bankrupt, bare, bereave, denude, despoil, disinherit, dismantle, dispossess, disrobe, divest, dock, expropriate, hold back, lose, oust, rob, seize, skim, stiff, strip, wrest

Antonyms:

appropriate, bestow, confer, endow, give, indulge, offer, present, supply
Main Entry: deserted
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: abandoned, unoccupied

Synonyms:

bare, barren, bereft, cast off, derelict, desolate, empty, forlorn, forsaken, godforsaken, isolated, left, left in the lurch, left stranded, lonely, lorn, neglected, relinquished, solitary, uncouth, uninhabited, vacant

Antonyms:

busy, crowded, populated, populous
Main Entry: desolate
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: depressed, despondent

Synonyms:

abandoned, acheronian, bereft, black, bleak, blue, cheerless, comfortless, companionless, dejected, disconsolate, dismal, dolorous, down, downcast, forlorn, forsaken, funereal, gloomy, hurting, in a blue funk, inconsolable, joyless, lonely, lonesome, lorn, melancholy, miserable, somber, tragic, 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, happy, pleased
Main Entry: destitute
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: down and out; wanting

Synonyms:

bankrupt, beggared, bereft, busted, dead broke, deficient, depleted, deprived of, devoid of, dirt poor, divested, drained, empty, exhausted, flat broke, flat*, impecunious, impoverished, in need of, indigent, insolvent, lacking, moneyless, necessitous, needy, on the breadline, on the rocks, penniless, penurious, pinched, played out, poor, poverty-stricken, stony, strapped, stripped, totaled, wiped out, without

Antonyms:

lucky, prosperous, rich, secure, wealthy
Main Entry: devoid
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: empty, wanting

Synonyms:

bare, barren, bereft, deficient, denuded, destitute, free from, innocent, lacking, needed, sans, unprovided with, vacant, void, without

Antonyms:

complete, filled, full
Main Entry: disinherit
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cut off in will of bequeathal

Synonyms:

bereave, cut off without a cent, deprive, disaffiliate, disown, dispossess, divest, evict, exclude, exheridate, neglect, oust, repudiate, rob

Antonyms:

bequeath, give
Main Entry: divest
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: dispossess; take off

Synonyms:

bankrupt, bare, bereave, bleed, denudate, denude, deprive, despoil, disinherit, dismantle, disrobe, ditch*, doff, dump, eighty-six, lose, milk, oust, plunder, remove, rob, seize, spoil, strip, take from, unclothe, uncover, undress, unload

Antonyms:

clothe, cover, invest, possess, take
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

Antonyms:

cheerful, comforted, consolable, happy, hopeful, joyful, pleased
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