FRIENDLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does friendless mean? 

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

1. excluded from a society

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRIENDLESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Excluded from a society

Synonyms:

friendless; outcast

Similar:

unwanted (not wanted; not needed)

Derivation:

friendlessness (being without friends)

 Context examples 

And now, my poor Watson, here we are, stranded and friendless in this inhospitable town, which we cannot leave without abandoning our case.

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

Charity carried the friendless thing to the house of its rich maternal relations; it was reared by an aunt-in- law, called (I come to names now) Mrs. Reed of Gateshead.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Now she is dependent, helpless, friendless, neglected, forgotten.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

To cast it in with Hyde, was to die to a thousand interests and aspirations, and to become, at a blow and forever, despised and friendless.

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

One of the most dangerous classes in the world, said he, is the drifting and friendless woman.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Do not despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate, but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He was a hearty, full-blooded fellow, full of spirits and energy, the very opposite to me in most respects, but we had some subjects in common, and it was a bond of union when I found that he was as friendless as I. Finally, he invited me down to his father’s place at Donnithorpe, in Norfolk, and I accepted his hospitality for a month of the long vacation.

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

It appears to me so very unlikely that any young man should form such a design against a girl who is by no means unprotected or friendless, and who was actually staying in his colonel's family, that I am strongly inclined to hope the best.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Splendid fellows, some of them, working like heros, poor and friendless, but so full of courage, patience, and ambition that I was ashamed of myself, and longed to give them a right good lift.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I had grown to be so accustomed to the Micawbers, and had been so intimate with them in their distresses, and was so utterly friendless without them, that the prospect of being thrown upon some new shift for a lodging, and going once more among unknown people, was like being that moment turned adrift into my present life, with such a knowledge of it ready made as experience had given me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)