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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
alienated
    adj 1: socially disoriented; "anomic loners musing over their
           fate"; "we live in an age of rootless alienated people"
           [syn: alienated, anomic, disoriented]
    2: caused to be unloved [syn: alienated, estranged]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
alienated \alienated\ adj.
   1. 1 socially disoriented. we live in an age of rootless
      alienated people

   Syn: anomic, disoriented
        [WordNet 1.5]

   2. having become indifferent or hostile to one's peers or
      social group.

   Syn: estranged
        [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Alienate \Al"ien*ate\ (-[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alienated;
   p. pr. & vb. n. Alienating.]
   1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or
      right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of
      averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to
      estrange; to wean; -- with from.
      [1913 Webster]

            The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and
            priesthood from the House of Stuart.  --Macaulay.
      [1913 Webster]

            The recollection of his former life is a dream that
            only the more alienates him from the realities of
            the present.                          --I. Taylor.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for alienated:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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