Bereft

Definitions: Bereft

Bereft

Adjective

1. Unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love.

2. Sorrowful through loss or deprivation; "bereft of hope".

Date "bereft" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Bereft

Synonyms: bereaved (adj), grief-stricken (adj), grieving (adj), lovelorn (adj), mourning(a) (adj), sorrowing(a) (adj), unbeloved (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Insanity	Adjective: insane, mad, lunatic,loony; crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis; not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind; insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft; phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic; possessed, possessed with a devil; deranged, maddened, moonstruck; shatterpated; mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained; touched, tetched; off one's head.
Insufficiency	Slack, at a low ebb; empty, vacant, bare; short of, out of, destitute of, devoid of, bereft of; denuded of; dry, drained.
Loss	Shorn of, deprived of; denuded, bereaved, bereft, minus, cut off; dispossessed; rid of, quit of; out of pocket.
Poverty	Adjective: poor, indigent; poverty-stricken; badly off, poorly off, ill off; poor as a rat, poor as a church mouse, poor as a Job; fortuneless, dowerless, moneyless, penniless; unportioned, unmoneyed; impecunious; out of money, out of cash, short of money, short of cash; without a rap, not worth a rap;(money); qui n'a pas le sou, out of pocket, hard up; out at elbows, out at heels; seedy, bare-footed; beggarly, beggared; destitute; fleeced, stripped; bereft, bereaved; reduced; homeless.
Taking	Bereft.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Bereft

English words defined with "bereft": bereft of ♦ Reft ♦ Unbereft, Unlived ♦ Yraft. (references)

Specialty definitions using "bereft": Blowzelinda ♦ Cemetery ♦ Hope ♦ Kenelm. (references)

Etymologies containing "bereft": Bereave. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)
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Domain	Title
Books	Bereft of Reason: On the Decline of Social Thought and Prospects for Its Renewal (reference) (more book examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The winter had bereft the wood of foliage, so that Thenardier did not lose sight of them, though remaining at a considerable distance behind.
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	He that bereft thee, lady, of thy husband Did it to help thee to a better husband.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	HOPE, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one. Delicious Hope! when naught to man it left -- Of fortune destitute, of friends bereft; When even his dog deserts him, and his goat With tranquil disaffection chews his coat While yet it hangs upon his back; then thou, The star far-flaming on thine angel brow, Descendest, radiant, from the skies to hint The promise of a clerkship in the Mint. Fogarty Weffing
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	Many languish in neighborhoods riddled with drugs and bereft of hope.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Bereft" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 54.05% of the time. "Bereft" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	54.05%	20	78,262
Adjective (general or positive)	35.14%	13	97,576
Lexical Verb (past tense)	10.81%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	37	N/A

Expressions using "bereft": be bereft ♦ be bereft of speech ♦ bereft of ♦ bereft of hope ♦ bereft of reason ♦ bereft of senses. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "bereft": camera-bereft, leader-bereft.
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Language		Translations for "bereft"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pr e pp e foljes bereave. (various references)

Arabic		‏ثكل (be bereaved, bereave, lose). (various references)

Bulgarian		лишавам (abridge, bereave, denude, drain, drain of, pinch, shear, starve). (various references)

Chinese		丧失 (Bereave, Bereaved, Bereaving). (various references)

Czech		zbavený (devoid). (various references)

French		privé (bereaved), dépossédé (bereaved). (various references)

German		beraubte (bereaved, deprived, despoiled, preyed, robbed), berauben (bereave, bereaved, deprive, despoil, plunder, rob, to deprive, to despoil). (various references)

Greek		στερημένοσ (devoid). (various references)

Hebrew		שכול (bereaved, bereavement, childlessness), �'מול (earnings, offset, payment, recompense, repayment, requital, retaliation, retribution, reward, wage, weanling). (various references)

Hungarian		megfosztotta. (various references)

Italian		privo (bereaved, destitute, devoid, do without, void, without). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		両親�'失う (to be bereft of one's parents). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		りょうし�"�'うしなう (to be bereft of one's parents). (various references)

Pig Latin		ereftbay

Portuguese		desolado (bereaved, desolate, devastated, gaunt, lorn, mourning, sorry, waste, woebegone), abandonado (abandoned, abandonee, alone, bereaved, comfortless, derelict, forlorn, forsaken, godhead, helpless, lonely, lorn, lovely, outcast, sole, stranded, unattended, unattending, uncared for, unrelieved, unused, waste). (various references)

Romanian		trecut şi participiu trecut de la bereave. (various references)

Russian		лишенный (devoid, devoid of, innocent, minus, naked, void). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		proš. vreme i particip od bereave. (various references)

Spanish		privado (abridged, favorite, favourite, independent, inquiry, intimate, minion, personal, private, privy, proprietary, quiet), pret y pp de bereave, despojado. (various references)

Swedish		berövad (bereaved). (various references)

Turkish		yoksun (bankrupt in, destitute, devoid of, empty, innocent of, out of, shorn, shorn of, unprovided, void of, wanting), kaybetmiş. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	orbe, orbi, orbis, vidua, viduae, viduam, viduarum, viduas, viduata, viduis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Bereft" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bereat, berefit, Berent, berest, berift, berrett, Berulf, birzeit, breef, Breefe, bref, brift, oberwelt. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "bereft" (pronounced bere"ft)
3	-e" f t	antitheft, cleft, deft, heft, left, theft.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: befret.
	Words within the letters "b-e-e-f-r-t"
	-1 letter: beret.
	-2 letters: beef, beer, beet, bree, feet, fere, fete, free, fret, reef, reft, rete, tree, tref.
	-3 letters: bee, bet, eft, ere, fee, fer, fet, reb, ree, ref, ret, tee.
	-4 letters: be, ef, er, et, re.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-e-f-r-t"
	+1 letter: befrets.
	+2 letters: briefest, buffeter, freeboot.
	+3 letters: beefeater, befretted, benefiter, buffeters, freeboots, refutable.
	+4 letters: barefooted, beautifier, beefeaters, beforetime, befretting, benefactor, benefiters, featherbed, filterable, freebooted, freebooter, interfiber, subterfuge, tenebrific.
	+5 letters: afterburner, beautifiers, beautifuler, benefactors, breakfasted, breakfaster, butterflied, butterflies, butterflyer, certifiable, defibrinate, featherbeds, fermentable, forfeitable, forgettable, freebooters, freebooting, irrefutable, perfectible, rectifiable, rubefacient, subterfuges.
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