fatherless

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fatherless

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

adjective fatherlesse

not comparable Without a (living) father. “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.
figuratively, not comparable Without a known author or inventor.

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adj without a living father

Deutsch	vaterlos

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@misc{fatherless_2026,
  title = {fatherless},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fatherless},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}