| ADJECTIVE | all | parentless, unparented | having no parent or parents or not cared for by parent surrogates |
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| Meaning | Having no parent or parents or not cared for by parent surrogates. | |
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| Synonym | unparented | |
| Narrower | fatherless | Having no living father |
| motherless | Having no living or known mother | |
| orphaned | deprived of parents by death or desertion | |
| Opposite | parented | Having a parent or parents or cared for by parent surrogates |
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