friendless

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for friendless
Adjective
  • Hong’s withdrawn gaze is interrupted by sudden movements, like pans across space and crash zooms into ongoing conversations.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Solitary, eccentric, shrouded in a mystical melancholy, Joakim fights for his farm and leads a withdrawn life, with only his pets and a neighbor for company; a Slovak immigrant who also lives ostracized, as an outsider.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Unlike a workstation or a server that IT teams actively track, things like printers, industrial control systems and even smart thermostats often sit unattended.
    Austin Gadient, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Nor is stealth aided by growing evidence of his own neglectful self-care: exhaustion, panic attacks, blackouts, a limp from unattended jogging injuries, eventually audio and visual hallucinations.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The area still had a slightly forlorn air, with stores boarded up and a few tent villages.
    Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2025
  • In the clip, Junior can be seen lying in his bed, motionless, looking off into the distance with a seemingly forlorn look on his face.
    Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • This is an isolated incident and not a threat to the public at this time, according to officials.
    Megan Forrester, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Organizations must restructure talent development and organizational frameworks to optimize for knowledge integration rather than isolated expertise.
    William Purvis, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Although affluent travelers have traditionally selected luxury hotels and opulent resorts as their preferred choice of accommodations, secluded villas and opulent suites with all the bells and whistles have recently become popular among ultra-high-net-worth individuals.
    Roger Sands, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The resort has 12 ridge-top suites providing a panoramic view of the Atlantic, 12 beachfront villas and 11 private secluded villas on the resort grounds.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • That process, undertaken in cloistered seclusion, provides not only the movie’s action but also its warily aggressive tone.
    Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024
  • This is not the first time that a group of Silicon Valley elites have attempted to build a cloistered community, away from but still adjacent to the center of the tech industry.
    Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 23 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Bill’s smarm has calcified into a kind of mad obsession; Hal is a starkly lonely and cowardly man.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Prepare For It To Be A Lonely Road I was told that entrepreneurship is a lonely road.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Last fall, Cromwell Valley Park’s critter cam captured a solitary beaver about 1000 yards downstream from that bridge, starting a new dam.
    Carl R. Gold, Baltimore Sun, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Picture John Wick, but with a solitary 60-year-old Korean lady stacking up the kill count with a sharp blade rather than Keanu with a Glock.
    Kevin Cassidy, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2025
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“Friendless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/friendless. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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