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Fatherless

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Having no living father.

adj. Having no known father.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Without a living father.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Destitute of a living father.

adj. Without a known author.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Without a living father: as, a fatherless child.

Springing from an orphaned condition.

Without a known author.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. not having a known or legally responsible father

adj. having no living father

Word Usage

"Meeting his double and delving into his life reveals deeper likenesses: raised in fatherless families and poor black neighborhoods, both felt the lure of the money and status to be gained from dealing drugs."

Equivalent

illegitimate parentless unparented

Cross Reference

orphan motherless half orphan parentless

Form

fatherlessness

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

orphan unfathered sireless dadless

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

motherless kinless friendless brotherless children