alienated, estranged
(adjective) caused to be unloved
alienated, anomic, disoriented
(adjective) socially disoriented; “anomic loners musing over their fate”; “we live in an age of rootless alienated people”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
alienated
simple past tense and past participle of alienate
alienated (comparative more alienated, superlative most alienated)
Isolated; excluded; estranged.
• on the outside, looking in
Source: Wiktionary
Al"ien*ate, a. Etym: [L. alienatus, p. p. of alienare, fr. alienus. See Alien, and cf. Aliene.]
Definition: Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from. O alienate from God. Milton.
Al"ien*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alienated; p. pr. & vb. n. Alienating.]
1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from. The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. Macaulay. The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. I. Taylor.
Al"ien*ate, n.
Definition: A stranger; an alien. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 November 2024
(adverb) in a searching manner; “‘Are you really happy with him,’ asked her mother, gazing at Vera searchingly”
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