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homeless Definition

home·less (hōm′lis)

adjective

having no home; without a permanent place of residence

homeless Related Forms
home′·less·ness noun
homeless Idioms

the homeless

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those typically poor or sometimes mentally ill people who are unable to maintain a place to live and therefore often may sleep in the streets, parks, etc.

homeless Synonyms

homeless

modif.

desolate, outcast, destitute, vagrant, wandering, uncared-for, itinerant, friendless, banished, estranged, derelict, without a country, exiled, having no home, vagabond, forsaken, displaced, unplaced, unhoused, friendless, unsettled, houseless, unwelcome, dispossessed, disinherited, unestablished, left to shift for oneself*, beyond the pale*, outside the gates*, without a roof over one's head*; see also abandoned 1, poor 1.

Antonyms at home, established*, settled.

homeless Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • become: Wherever possible, we will try to prevent you becoming homeless.
  • feed: When restored it will be used for the ministry to help feed the homeless in the central Texas area.
  • help: A charity which helps the homeless has been handed almost £ 200,000 to help youngsters in Bedford.

Preposition: through

  • fault: By law, it is necessary to find out if you are homeless through no fault of your own.

Adjective modifier

  • hidden: Consider methods of collecting the views of the hidden homeless.

Modifies a noun

  • hostel: The new program will be set in a homeless hostel, and will star a host of stars in a modern look at homelessness.
  • household: Provision for intentionally homeless households is good in some areas.
  • shelter: In Albuquerque a homeless shelter refused $ 1,200 raised by a drag show.
  • people: Aims to help homeless people escape the poverty of living on the streets.
  • wanderer: They saw Him rejected and despised of men, and a homeless Wanderer in this cold world.
  • applicant: It is usual for a limited number of offers to be made to homeless applicants.

Modifying Another Word

  • intentionally: A new duty toward intentionally homeless people in priority need is created.
  • unintentionally: People who must qualify are unintentionally homeless people in priority need.
  • formerly: Resources for the homeless; maintained by a formerly homeless person.

Noun used with modifier

  • street: London-based charity focusing on meeting the needs of young street homeless.
  • priority: If we do not accept you as priority homeless we will offer you housing advice to help you find a new home.

Used with adjective complement

  • render: Survivors in their millions were rendered homeless, destitute, and threatened by disease.
  • become: Social Care sometimes has a duty to help certain groups of people who become homeless.
  • leave: Over 3.3 million people have been left homeless by the South Asian earthquake with winter drawing in rapidly.

Preposition: by

  • earthquake: Over 3.3 million people have been left homeless by the South Asian earthquake with winter drawing in rapidly.
homeless Quotes

»7,000 a week would be fine for the homeless. But not for me.

—Van Hooijdonk, Pierre

The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of his agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent and uncertain† But there can be no doubt as to the elements in the record that have evoked the best in human nature. The Mother, the Child and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self- forgetful, with his message of peace, love and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.

—Whitehead, Alfred North

   Show me a man who cares no more for one place than another, and I will show you in that same person one who loves nothing but himself. Beware of those who are homeless by choice.

—Southey, Robert

He looks like a homeless man in a thousand dollar suit.

—Anonymous

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

—Lazarus, Emma