fatherless

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  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. Without a known author or inventor. figuratively,not-comparable

词形变化

fatherlesse alternative

词汇关系

上位词
parentless
衍生词
fatherlessness
相关词
half orphan orphan
并列词
motherless

词源

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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