Synonyms of orphaned

orphaned

adjective

1

as in widowed

Related Words

• widowed
• bereaved
• bereft
• distressed
• suffering
• upset
• sad
• unhappy
• mourning
• crying
• grieving
• melancholy
• mournful
• wailing
• sorrowing
• weeping
• miserable
• lamenting
• bemoaning

2

as in adopted

Related Words

• adopted
• motherless
• nameless
• fatherless
• misbegotten
• illegitimate
• spurious
• unfathered
• supposititious
• baseborn
• natural

Dissimilar Words

• legitimate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of orphaned

Four orphaned bobcats will be rehabilitated at Wildlife Care Center in Saratoga in an effort to return the kittens back to the wild this fall. — Laura A. Oda, Mercury News, 9 July 2026

On Little House on the Prairie, Cadorath plays Caleb, an orphaned preteen who's new to Independence. — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 9 July 2026

The orphaned service account exists because a human left without proper offboarding. — Beth Miller, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

With wonder and with great shame the yodel is an orphaned sound, a sound that turns the serenade toward an addressee that is destined to never hear it. — Literary Hub, 6 July 2026

The elderly man next to Rembrandt and the androgynous figure with the fur hat beneath, says the house, may be Rembrandt’s godparents, while the young woman wearing embroidered headgear holding an infant is most likely a member of Rembrandt’s family or household, possibly his orphaned god-sister. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 26 June 2026

That’s the state Supergirl is in when she is dragged into a local dispute on some far-off planet, defending the honor of an orphaned teenage girl, Ruthye (Eve Ridley); her parents were murdered by a brigand named Krem of the Yellow Hills (Matthias Schoenaerts). — David Sims, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026

Its first strand, set in 1995, follows a rural doctor in Nagqu who takes in an orphaned Tibetan baby girl. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 June 2026

An orphaned owl at a rescue center in New York has adopted the role of a foster parent, nursing two orphaned baby owlets and giving them parental love. — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 19 June 2026