ALIENATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does alienated mean? 

• ALIENATED (adjective)
  The adjective ALIENATED has 2 senses:

1. socially disoriented

2. caused to be unloved

  Familiarity information: ALIENATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALIENATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Socially disoriented

Synonyms:

alienated; anomic; disoriented

Context example:

we live in an age of rootless alienated people

Similar:

unoriented (not having position or goal definitely set or ascertained)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Caused to be unloved

Synonyms:

alienated; estranged

Similar:

unloved (not loved)

 Context examples 

She had probably alienated love by the helplessness and fretfulness of a fearful temper, or been unreasonable in wanting a larger share than any one among so many could deserve.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It is, in short, impossible for us to conjecture the causes or circumstances which may have alienated them, without actual blame on either side.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I was not made the less so by my sense of being daily more and more shut out and alienated from my mother.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The night before he left home, happening to see him walking in the garden about sunset, and remembering, as I looked at him, that this man, alienated as he now was, had once saved my life, and that we were near relations, I was moved to make a last attempt to regain his friendship.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

These difficulties, indeed, with a heart so alienated from Lucy, might not press very hard upon his patience; but melancholy was the state of the person by whom the expectation of family opposition and unkindness, could be felt as a relief!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The sister with whom she was used to be on easy terms was now become her greatest enemy: they were alienated from each other; and Julia was not superior to the hope of some distressing end to the attentions which were still carrying on there, some punishment to Maria for conduct so shameful towards herself as well as towards Mr. Rushworth.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)