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| Main Entry: | homeless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | displaced |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, derelict, desolate, destitute, displaced, down-and-out*, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, itinerant, outcast, refugee, unsettled, unwelcome, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, banished, deported, disinherited, dispossessed, estranged, exiled, houseless, uncared-for, unhoused, without a roof |
| Antonyms: | settled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | forlorn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless, inconsolable |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, alone, bereft, blue*, cheerless, cynical, defenseless, depressed, deserted, desolate, despairing, desperate, despondent, destitute, destroyed, disconsolate, dragging*, forgotten, forsaken, friendless, fruitless, futile, godforsaken*, helpless, homeless, lonely, lonesome, lost, miserable, oppressed, pathetic, pessimistic, pitiful, solitary, tragic, unhappy, vain, woebegone, wretched, comfortless, down and out, in the dumps, pitiable, weighed down |
| 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, hopeful, joyful, pleased, comforted, consolable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impecunious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poverty-stricken |
| Synonyms: | broke*, destitute, homeless, impoverished, indigent, insolvent, needy, penniless, penurious, poor, strapped*, beggared, cleaned out, dirt poor, necessitous, unprosperous |
| Antonyms: | moneyed, rich, wealthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | indigent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor |
| Synonyms: | destitute, hard up*, homeless, impecunious, impoverished, needy, penniless, penurious, poverty-stricken, beggared, busted, down and out, flat broke, in want, necessitous |
| Antonyms: | rich, wealthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stranded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | marooned, abandoned |
| Synonyms: | aground, ashore, beached, godforsaken*, helpless, high and dry, homeless, penniless, shipwrecked, wrecked, cast away, grounded, left at the altar, left in the lurch, on the rocks, out in left field, passed up, run aground, sidelined, sidetracked |
| Antonyms: | found |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stray |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abandoned, wandering |
| Synonyms: | devious, erratic, homeless, lost, roaming, roving, vagrant |
| Main Entry: | lonely |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | feeling friendless, forlorn |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, alone, apart, deserted, desolate, destitute, disconsolate, down, empty, forsaken, godforsaken, homeless, isolated, left, lone, lonesome, outcast, reclusive, rejected, secluded, single, solitary, unattended, withdrawn, by oneself, comfortless, companionless, estranged, renounced, troglodytic, unbefriended, uncherished, unsocial |
| Antonyms: | loved, befriended, unlonely |
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| Main Entry: | removal |
| Part of Speech: | noun1, noun2 |
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