ESTRANGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does estranged mean? 

• ESTRANGED (adjective)
  The adjective ESTRANGED has 1 sense:

1. caused to be unloved

  Familiarity information: ESTRANGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESTRANGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Caused to be unloved

Synonyms:

alienated; estranged

Similar:

unloved (not loved)

 Context examples 

So far estranged, that I did not expect him to come and speak to me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There was a family quarrel about money which estranged this man Mortimer, but it was supposed to be made up, and I afterwards met him as I did the others.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Such unscientific balderdash, added the doctor, flushing suddenly purple, would have estranged Damon and Pythias.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She had too old a regard for him to be so wholly estranged as might in two meetings extinguish every past hope, and leave him nothing to do but to keep away from Uppercross: but there was such a change as became very alarming, when such a man as Captain Wentworth was to be regarded as the probable cause.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He is estranged from our eldest son and daughter, he has no pride in his twins, he looks with an eye of coldness even on the unoffending stranger who last became a member of our circle.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Fanny estranged from him, silent and reserved, was an unnatural state of things; a state which he must break through, and which he could easily learn to think she was wanting him to break through.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Our own star at the center of the Solar System is probably no exception, and some astronomers suspect that the Sun's estranged twin might be the evil one, blaming it for the death of the dinosaurs.

(Our Sun Could Have Been Born With an Evil Twin Called "Nemesis", The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

And in all probability you will see your brother, and whatever may be his faults, or the faults of his wife, when I consider whose son he is, I cannot bear to have you so wholly estranged from each other.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“I am a married man, and have been so for three years. During that time my wife and I have loved each other as fondly and lived as happily as any two that ever were joined. We have not had a difference, not one, in thought or word or deed. And now, since last Monday, there has suddenly sprung up a barrier between us, and I find that there is something in her life and in her thought of which I know as little as if she were the woman who brushes by me in the street. We are estranged, and I want to know why.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet now, how distant, how far estranged we were!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)