Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Mentally astray; demented.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective socially disoriented.
  • adjective having become indifferent or hostile to one's peers or social group.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Isolated; excluded; estranged.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of alienate.

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

  • adjective caused to be unloved
  • adjective socially disoriented

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Examples

  • Don't know about bovines in blizzard games, but gender neutral characters tend to be male-centric, and even though I myself use video games as a medium for escapism sometimes, I certainly do not want to be alienated from the experience ALL of the time, and not for reasons that are sexist.

    Heroine SVGL 2009

  • I see so many students who seem to be alienated from the process of learning English, and I tend to blame this on the fact that the language and what they have had to do with it has never belonged to them.

    C is for Coursebook (by Lindsay Clandfield) « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • Compared to core conservatives and liberals, however, independents are generally pragmatic and moderate in outlook, and almost by definition are alienated from the hyper-partisan, zero-sum game of politics as played in Washington.

    Will Marshall: Revolt of the Radical Center, Act III Will Marshall 2010

  • Additions to the staff may yet broaden Obama's inner circle or speak for constituencies that feel alienated from the White House.

    Obama signals continuity, for now, with staff changes Post 2010

  • Compared to core conservatives and liberals, however, independents are generally pragmatic and moderate in outlook, and almost by definition are alienated from the hyper-partisan, zero-sum game of politics as played in Washington.

    Will Marshall: Revolt of the Radical Center, Act III Will Marshall 2010

  • Compared to core conservatives and liberals, however, independents are generally pragmatic and moderate in outlook, and almost by definition are alienated from the hyper-partisan, zero-sum game of politics as played in Washington.

    Will Marshall: Revolt of the Radical Center, Act III Will Marshall 2010

  • Compared to core conservatives and liberals, however, independents are generally pragmatic and moderate in outlook, and almost by definition are alienated from the hyper-partisan, zero-sum game of politics as played in Washington.

    Will Marshall: Revolt of the Radical Center, Act III Will Marshall 2010

  • Compared to core conservatives and liberals, however, independents are generally pragmatic and moderate in outlook, and almost by definition are alienated from the hyper-partisan, zero-sum game of politics as played in Washington.

    Will Marshall: Revolt of the Radical Center, Act III Will Marshall 2010

  • Compared to core conservatives and liberals, however, independents are generally pragmatic and moderate in outlook, and almost by definition are alienated from the hyper-partisan, zero-sum game of politics as played in Washington.

    Will Marshall: Revolt of the Radical Center, Act III Will Marshall 2010

  • However at this point he has allowed himself to be so circumscribed by the right, and so alienated from the left, that I doubt there is much left that he can do to salvage his presidency.

    Matthew Yglesias » Ungovernable 2009

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