BEREFT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bereft mean? 

• BEREFT (adjective)
  The adjective BEREFT has 2 senses:

1. unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love

2. sorrowful through loss or deprivation

  Familiarity information: BEREFT used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEREFT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love

Synonyms:

bereft; lovelorn; unbeloved

Similar:

unloved (not loved)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Sorrowful through loss or deprivation

Synonyms:

bereaved; bereft; grief-stricken; grieving; mourning; sorrowing

Context example:

bereft of hope

Similar:

sorrowful (experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss)

 Context examples 

Though a very social man, I think Mr. Bhaer would have gone decorously away, and come again another day, but how could he, when Jo shut the door behind him, and bereft him of his hat?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Bereft of his cake, defrauded of his frolic, and borne away by a strong hand to that detested bed, poor Demi could not restrain his wrath, but openly defied Papa, and kicked and screamed lustily all the way upstairs.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The poor man was very uncomfortable, for the children had bereft him of his wife, home was merely a nursery and the perpetual 'hushing' made him feel like a brutal intruder whenever he entered the sacred precincts of Babyland.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)