adj
Meaning 1
Without friends (without a friend).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- friendless homebody
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: enemyless
Standard Lemma guide
friendless
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈfrɛndləs/
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dialectal, pin-pen-merger: /ˈfrɪndləs/
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adjective satellite
Meaning 2
excluded from a society
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: outcast
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English frendles, from Old English frēondlēas. By surface analysis, friend + -less.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bengali: বন্ধুহীন (bondhuhin) — without friends
- Danish: venneløs — without friends
- Dutch: vriendloos — without friends
- Esperanto: senamika — without friends
- German: freundlos — without friends
- Ancient Greek: ἄφιλος (áphilos) — without friends
- Icelandic: vinalaus — without friends
- Middle English: frendles — without friends
- Norwegian Bokmål: vennelaus — without friends
- Norwegian Bokmål: venneløs — without friends
- Norwegian Nynorsk: venelaus — without friends
- Norwegian Nynorsk: vennelaus — without friends
- Old English: frēondlēas — without friends
- Polish: samotny — without friends
- Polish: opuszczony — without friends
- Polish: bez przyjaciół — without friends
- Sanskrit: अमित्र (amitra) — without friends
- Spanish: sin amigos — without friends
- Swedish: vänlös — without friends
- Turkish: arkadaşsız — without friends
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