Definition of Parentless

1. Adjective. Having no parent or parents or not cared for by parent surrogates.

Exact synonyms: Unparented
Similar to: Orphaned, Fatherless, Motherless
Antonyms: Parented

Definition of Parentless

1. a. Deprived of parents.

Definition of Parentless

1. Adjective. Having no (living) parent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Parentless

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parentless

parenthesize
parenthesized
parenthesizes
parenthesizing
parenthesome
parenthetic
parenthetical
parenthetical expression
parenthetically
parentheticals
parenthood
parenthoods
parenting
parentings
parentism
parentless (current term)
parentlike
parents
parents-in-law
pareo
pareos
parepicele
parepididymis
parepithymia
parer
parerethisis
parerga
parergasia
parergon
parers

Literary usage of Parentless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Methodist Review (1883)
"Here are utterances that seem almost to put us back to the Mosaic evolution and parentless creation of man. 1. The highest science here confesses, ..."

2. A Theory of Reality: An Essay in Metaphysical System Upon the Basis of Human by George Trumbull Ladd (1899)
"That mystery knoweth why the super-depths rent themselves asunder, and why they set themselves in one order, and why they emanated from the parentless. ..."

3. The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell (1862)
"Can this be likewise termed a parental generation, or is it not rather a non-identical, a parentless generation ? The parental generation can only be ..."

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