All bereft synonyms
be·reft
B b adj bereft
- cut off — If you cut something off, you remove it with a knife or a similar tool.
- destitute — Someone who is destitute has no money or possessions.
- devoid — destitute or void (of); free (from)
- impoverished — reduced to poverty.
- minus — less by the subtraction of; decreased by: Ten minus six is four.
- naked — being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake.
- stripped — having had a covering, clothing, equipment, or furnishings removed: trees stripped of their leaves by the storm; a stripped bed ready for clean sheets.
- wanting — lacking or absent: a motor with some of the parts wanting.
- without — with the absence, omission, or avoidance of; not with; with no or none of; lacking: without help; without shoes; without her helping me; without him to help.
- deprived — Deprived people or people from deprived areas do not have the things that people consider to be essential in life, for example acceptable living conditions or education.
- beggared — a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- bereaved — A bereaved person is one who has a relative or close friend who has recently died.
- dispossessed — evicted, as from a dwelling, land, etc.; ousted.
- fleeced — having a fleece of a specified kind (usually used in combination): a thick-fleeced animal.
- robbed — to take something from (someone) by unlawful force or threat of violence; steal from.
- shorn — a past participle of shear.