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bereft

adjective

1 bereft

Unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love.

synonyms: lovelorn, unbeloved.

Roget 789: taking etc. v.; privative, prehensile; predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial; lupine, rapacious, raptorial; ravenous; parasitic.    ... show more

2 bereft

Sorrowful through loss or deprivation:
— Bereft of hope.

synonyms: bereaved, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning, sorrowing.

Roget 776: losing etc. v.; not having etc. 777.1. shorn of, deprived of; denuded, bereaved, bereft, minus, cut off; ... show more

Roget 804: poor, indigent; poverty-stricken; badly off, poorly off, ill off; poor as a rat, poor as a church mouse, poor as a Job; fortuneless, dowerless, moneyless, penniless; unportioned, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: bankrupt in, bare of, beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereaved of, bereft of, cut off, denuded, denuded of, deprived, deprived of, destitute of, devoid of, disadvantaged, divested, empty of, fatherless, fleeced, for want of ... show more.

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