Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Having no (living) parent.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Deprived of parents.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having no parent or parents or not cared for by parent surrogates
Etymologies
- parent + -less (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In the interview, he even says it'd be better for the children to remain parentless rather than have two Mommies (or two Daddies).”
“I think the inclusion of Jack's father was mainly just an excuse to have Keith Richards do a cameo; otherwise I belive thhey would have left the characters "parentless" in the sense of they don't figure in the story at all.”
“But despite the abusive and threatening phone calls she received Ms Francis last night took her claims further, likening what she calls this new "parentless" generation to the Stolen”
“There is not a store full of "parentless" babies just waiting for us infertiles.”
“It's not automatic that your friends "get" what it's like to be a parentless parent, and sometimes not even your spouse understands, particularly if he hasn't lost a parent.”
The Huffington Post: Allison Gilbert: Parentless Parents: Strategies For A Better Mother's Day
“Life has made the children brave, quick-witted and self-reliant, but their parentless hearts are hungry, and that longing shapes their actions.”
The Wall Street Journal: Children's Books: 'The Emerald Atlas'
“In providing for himself, our boy had all but guaranteed that he would grow up parentless and alone.”
The Wall Street Journal: A Kingdom of Wonder, For Those With Eyes to See
“The "I" Factor is the term I use to describe the specific losses experienced by parentless parents.”
The Huffington Post: Being A Parentless Parent: The Effect on You, Your Children and Your Marriage
“Caring for babies and young children is often physically more demanding for parentless parents because their moms and dads can't babysit.”
The Huffington Post: Being A Parentless Parent: The Effect on You, Your Children and Your Marriage
“A doctor I interviewed took an educated guess on how the grandparent gap affects the children of parentless parents.”
The Huffington Post: Being A Parentless Parent: The Effect on You, Your Children and Your Marriage
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘parentless’.
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Words ending with *more or *less, more or less. Many of theses terms also appear on the list The -less Said, which see.
schemaless, unless, useless, guileless, wireless, regardless, homeless, endless, nevertheless, countless, jobless, doubtless and 434 more...
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The -less Said...
hopeless, bootless, groundless, luckless, artless, feckless, hapless, joyless, useless, penniless, childless, peerless and 310 more...
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