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Definition: Friendless |
FriendlessAdjective1. Excluded from a society. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "friendless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | FRIENDLESS, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: FriendlessSynonym: outcast (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Seclusion Exclusion | Estranged; unfrequented; uninhabitable, uninhabited; tenantless; abandoned; deserted, deserted in one's utmost need; unfriended; kithless, friendless, homeless; lorn, forlorn, desolate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Friendless |
| English words defined with "friendless": A forlorn hope. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "friendless": FRIENDLESS. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And you friendless, helpless, hopeless, brainless! (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman) Wait a minute were you one of those guys in high school who spent half his time at the arcade, hunched over the machines with all the other pale, friendless virgins? (NewsRadio; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign. |
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| "Friendless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.62% of the time. "Friendless" is used about 42 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.62% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.38% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 42 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
friendless | 7 |
friend friendless | 3 |
animal friendless home | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "friendless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pa miq. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لا أصدقاء له, عديم الأصدقاء. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | самотен (desolate, lone, lonely, lonesome, lorn, secluded, single, solitary, unfriended), без приятели (unfriended). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | opuštìný (abandoned, derelict, deserted, desolate, destitute, forlorn, forsaken, uninhabited). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zonder vrienden. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | senamika. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sans ami, isolé (free standing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | freundlos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | társtalan (lonesome, solitary), elhagyatott (abandoned, deserted, desolate, forlorn, gaunt, helpless, lone, lorn, neglected, recluse, secluded, solitary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | senza amici. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gyn carrey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iendlessfray desamparado (defenceless, derelict, destitute, forlorn, forsook, helpless, naked, outclass, unrelieved), a melhor amiga. (various references) fãrã prieteni (unfriended). (various references) одинокий (alone, desolate, lone, lonely, single, solitary). (various references) usamljen (forlorn, lone, lonely, lonesome, lorn, solitary, unfrequented). (various references) sin amigos. (various references) utan vänner. (various references) ซึ่งไร้เพื่อน. (various references) dostu olmayan, arkadaşsız (drab, unbefriended, unfriended). (various references) самітний (alone, cloistered, close, desolate, lone, private, privy, single, singular, solitary, widowed). (various references) không có bạn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old English | 450-1100 | freondleas. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "friendless": friendlessness, friendlessnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Friendless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: friendes, friendess, friendlies, friendness, Frindle, Iriandeses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "friendless" (pronounced 'Friend"less'): Actless, Ageless, Aidless, Aimless, Airless, Aisless, Approachless, Armless, Artless, Assistless, Avoidless, Awless, Awnless, Backless, Badgeless, Barkless, Baseless, Bashless, Bateless, Beamless, Beardless, Birthless, Bitless, Blameless, Blissless, Bloodless, Bloomless, Blotless, Blushless, Boastless, Boneless, Bookless, Bootless, Boteless, Boundless, Bournless, Bowless, Bractless, Bragless, Brainless, Branchless, Breadless, Breadthless, Breathless, Breezeless, Bribeless, Bridgeless, Briefless, Brimless, Browless. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-i-l-n-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: defilers, definers, direness, fernless, fielders, finessed, fireless, flensers, flinders, fresnels, idleness, linseeds, redlines, reinless, rifeness. | |
-3 letters: defiers, defiler, defiles, definer, defines, deniers, desires, diesels, eldress, endless, enisled, enisles, enserfs, ensiled, ensiles, felines, fenders, ferlies, fielder, finders, finesse, finless, flensed, flenser, flenses, flinder, fresnel, friends, frisees, idlesse, ireless, lenders, liernes, linseed, nereids, redfins. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-f-i-l-n-r-s-s" | |
+2 letters: floridnesses, friendliness, pridefulness. | |
+3 letters: splendiferous. | |
+4 letters: formidableness, friendlessness, friendlinesses, pridefulnesses, unfriendliness. | |
+5 letters: antifederalists, disgracefulness, distressfulness, foolhardinesses, splendiferously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 72 69 65 6E 64 6C 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .-. .. . -. -.. .-.. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110010 01101001 01100101 01101110 01100100 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F r i e n d l e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0072 0069 0065 006E 0064 006C 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40847571807078718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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