bereft

bereft

adjective

Definition of BEREFT

1

suffering the death of a loved one <to one investigator, the bereft woman seemed to be taking the sudden death of her rich husband amazingly well>

Synonyms bereft

Related Words orphaned, widowed; distressed, grieving, melancholy, miserable, mournful, mourning, sad, sorrowing, suffering, unhappy, upset; bemoaning, crying, lamenting, wailing, weeping

2

utterly lacking in something needed, wanted, or expected <a cheap motel completely bereft of all amenities>

Synonyms bankrupt, bare, barren, bereft, destitute, void

Related Words blank, empty, innocent, stark, vacant, wanting; deficient, fragmental, fragmentary, incomplete, insufficient, partial, short; absent, missing

Near Antonyms furnished, provided, supplied; brimming, bulging, bursting, chock-full (or chockful), crammed, crowded, fat, jammed, jam-packed, loaded, packed, saturated, stuffed; abounding, swarming, teeming, thick, thronging

Antonyms filled, flush, fraught, full, replete, rife