Unfathered

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having no father; fatherless.
  • adj. Having no known father; illegitimate.
  • adj. Of uncertain origin or authenticity: unfathered rumors.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Not raised by a father.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having no father; fatherless; hence, born contrary to nature.
  • adj. Having no acknowledged father; hence, illegitimate; spurious; bastard.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having no father; fatherless; hence, produced contrary to the course of nature. Not acknowledged by its father; having no acknowledged father, as an illegitimate child: used figuratively; as, an unfathered proposition.
    • Word Usage
    "Still more remarkable is the historically unfathered impulse of the Jewish nation to set about eliminating participation by quite other methods than those of alpha-thinking [that is, of thinking about things]."
    Cross Reference
    unmothered   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    fatherless    spurious    bastard   
    Same Context
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