homeless

4 definitions found

homeless - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Homeless \Home"less\, a. [AS. h[=a]mleas.]
     Destitute of a home. -- Home"less*ness, n.
     [1913 Webster]

  homeless \home"less\, n. pl.
     Those people who have no permanent residence, especially
     those who live outdoors due to poverty; usually used in the
     definite phrase the homeless.

homeless - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  homeless
      adj 1: without nationality or citizenship; "stateless persons"
             [syn: homeless, stateless]
      2: physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security;
         "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one
         country to another"- James Stern [syn: dispossessed,
         homeless, roofless]
      n 1: someone unfortunate without housing; "a homeless was found
           murdered in Central Park" [syn: homeless, homeless person
           ]
      2: poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in;
         "the homeless became a problem in the large cities"

homeless - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "homeless":
     abandoned, alienated, alone, aloof, apart, bankrupt, bums,
     companionless, defenseless, derelict, deserted, desolate,
     destitute, detached, down-and-out, exiled, fatherless, forlorn,
     forsaken, fortuneless, friendless, godforsaken, helpless,
     houseless, in the gutter, in the red, insolvent, insular, isolated,
     kithless, landless, lone, lonely, lonesome, moneyless, motherless,
     out of funds, outcast, penniless, propertyless, removed, rootless,
     separate, separated, single-handed, solitary, solo, stateless,
     unabetted, unaccompanied, unaided, unassisted, unattended,
     unescorted, unestablished, unfriended, unharbored, unhoused,
     unplaced, unseconded, unsettled, unsupported, vagabond, withdrawn,
     without a sou