bereft
bereft is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.of Bereave. BERENICE'S HAIR Ber`e*ni"ce's Hair`. [See Berenice's, Locks, in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.] (Astron.) See Coma Berenices, under Coma.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- adieu
- allow
- bereavement
- cut
- damage
- deperdition
- deprivation
- dispossession
- exempt
- experience
- farewell
- forfeit
- forfeiture
- get
- having
- hopeless
- incur
- irretrievable
- lapse
- let
- long
- lose
- losing
- loss
- lost
- meet
- minus
- mislay
- miss
- not
- off
- out
- perdition
- privation
- quit
- rid
- riddance
- shorn
- slip
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
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Definition-first questions whose answer is bereft.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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