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bereft::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bereaved, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning, sorrowing |
bereft of hope.
Examples of bereft
bereft
Bereft Of the blue milk, the toys of feather and fur, The den life's happy dark.
From the guardian.co.uk
Joelle died in the June 9, 2002, accident in Corinth, leaving her family bereft.
From the timesunion.com
Many of these towns are bereft of men and dominated by single-parent households.
From the theatlantic.com
Often bereft of allies, they have struggled to make substantive political gains.
From the sacbee.com
Organisation will count against Mr Livingstone, but he is not bereft of friends.
From the economist.com
He is an ex-cricketer, is no more, has ceased to be, is bereft of sporting life.
From the independent.co.uk
When he shrugs off the blackmail, she finally goes to Paris, leaving him bereft.
From the en.wikipedia.org
I'd feel bereft if for some reason the Little Girl didn't come with us each day.
From the happiness-project.com
The papers are not bereft of whimsy, but it is confined to footnotes and asides.
From the economist.com
- Unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love
- Bereaved: sorrowful through loss or deprivation; "bereft of hope"
- Bereft is a 2004 film written by Peter Ferland and directed by Tim Daly and J. Clark Mathis. Bereft is the first film Daly directed. It stars Vinessa Shaw, Michael C. ...
- Pained by the loss of someone; deprived of, lacking, stripped of, robbed of
- (bereftness) The quality of being bereft
- N. 1. Those who have lost a child. i.e., just as one might say, "I am a widow" or "I am an orphan," likewise a parent whose child has died would say, "I am a bereft." (Contributor note: Wendy writes about why she chose this word and says, "... ...
- To be bereft of something is not to lack it but to be dispossessed of it, to lose it. A spinster is not bereft of a husband, but a widow is. (The word is the past participle of bereave.) (37)
