familyless en · ADJ
Etymology
From family + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without a family.
They are famililess, solitary, nonconforming individuals, with no ties to anything but the Legion.
2003, Tatjana Pavlovic, Despotic Bodies and Transgressive Bodies: Spanish Culture from Francisco Franco to Jesús Franco, page 32:[…] they all sat in one small room with a radio playing foreign music, three other sailors and himself and the four brown, queerly familyless women (it seemed to him) in their slippery dresses and no underwear,
1972, John Gardner, The Sunlight Dialogues, page 11:For weeks Seldon recounted excitedly to me (and, of course, to the entire school) every detail of my nocturnal attempt to run away from home and be taken in by the nuns as a familyless child […]
2004, Philip Roth, The Plot Against America, pages 234-235:[…] the houseless, familyless old man staggered off a vagabond in crape; his every woe unreverenced; his grey head a scorn to flaxen curls!
1851, Herman Melville, chapter 112, in Moby-Dick, page 539:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| famililess | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (1)
hu családtalan (without a family)