[syn: alienated, estranged]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
alienated \alienated\ adj.
1. 1 socially disoriented. we live in an age of rootless
alienated people
Syn: anomic, disoriented
[WordNet 1.5]
2. having become indifferent or hostile to one's peers or
social group.
Syn: estranged
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Alienate \Al"ien*ate\ (-[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alienated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Alienating.]
1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or
right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
[1913 Webster]
2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of
averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to
estrange; to wean; -- with from.
[1913 Webster]
The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and
priesthood from the House of Stuart. --Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]
The recollection of his former life is a dream that
only the more alienates him from the realities of
the present. --I. Taylor.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
alienated
adj 1: socially disoriented; "anomic loners musing over their
fate"; "we live in an age of rootless alienated people"
[syn: alienated, anomic, disoriented]
2: caused to be unloved [syn: alienated, estranged]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
66 Moby Thesaurus words for "alienated":
alone, aloof, antiestablishment, apart, at odds with,
at variance with, breakaway, companionless, counter-culture,
detached, differing, disaffected, disagreeing, disarticulated,
disconnected, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed,
disjunct, dislocated, dispersed, dissentient, dissenting,
dissident, disunited, divided, divorced, estranged, friendless,
homeless, in opposition, insular, irreconcilable, isolated,
kithless, lone, lonely, lonesome, nonconforming, opposing,
recusant, removed, rootless, scattered, sectarian, sectary,
segregated, separate, separated, sequestered, shut off,
single-handed, solitary, solo, torn, unabetted, unaccompanied,
unaided, unassisted, unattended, underground, unescorted,
unseconded, unsupported, withdrawn