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Fatherless

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Without a (living) father. not-comparable

    "“Homer’s Triple Bypass” has the potential to be the most depressing episode in the history of The Simpsons, if not television as whole. It is, after all, about a 36-year-old husband and father staring down death and the prospect of leaving his wife a young widow and his small children fatherless."

  2. 2
    Without a known author or inventor. figuratively, not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    not having a known or legally responsible father wordnet
  2. 2
    having no living father wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English faderles, federles, from Old English fæderlēas, from Proto-Germanic *fadērlausaz, equivalent to father + -less. Cognate with German vaterlos.

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