Bereft

What do we mean by bereft?

Deprived of something. adjective

Lacking something needed or expected. adjective

Suffering the death of a loved one; bereaved. adjective

Preterit and past participle of bereave. noun

Imp. & p. p. of bereave.

Simple past tense and past participle of bereave. verb

To deprive. verb

Pained by the loss of someone adjective

Deprived of, lacking, stripped of, robbed of adjective

Unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love adjective

Sorrowful through loss or deprivation adjective

To deprive by or as if by violence; to rob; to strip; to benim.

To take away by destroying, impairing, or spoiling; take away by violence.

To deprive of power; prevent.

To take away someone or something that is important or close; deprive.

To destroy life; cut off.

Words that are spelled similarly to bereft:
bereft, beret, berent, beleft, bereit.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word bereft:
wits, daly, possessions, humour, hughes, anything, moment, wealth, leadership, personality, soul, ideas, talent, duties, lay, sense, purpose, tim, faith, abandoned, nor, any, hope, strength.

Words that rhyme with bereft:
left, deft, heft, cleft, theft, klepht, antitheft, neft, effed, far left, kreft, stage left, gill cleft, tefft.

Adjectives that are often used to describe bereft:
more, much, long, singularly, little, most, left, early, future, individual, easeful, right, light, less, sore, self, alike, modern, fawn, nigh, american, dappled, present, plumb, longer, pure, poor, untimely, simple, clear, kindred, french, bare, dead, day, desolate, wellnigh, clean, barren, past, sweet, empty, dry, holy, ill, today, royal, alcoholic, sudden, female, exploited, secular, diabolic, man, ghost, physician, being, plain, swift.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective bereft:
mother, family, father, woman, widow, parents, husband, children, child, families, mothers, man, wife, lover, condition, women, state, unwept, feeling, people, person, ones, heart, parent, men, expression, relatives, girl, son, mourner, parlor, daughter, owner, appearance, soul, world, individual, recompense, look, friend, home, restaurateur, spouse, widows, widower, neighbors, patriotism, community, household, survivors, siblings, souls, congregation, motherhood, wives, lady, landlord, owners, pair, ladies, eyes, sore, animal, nurse, millions, age, lovers, dog, voice, consort, disciples, cousins, survivor, spirit, king, partner, sisters, nancy, hearts, orphans, sister, church, master, flock, friends, zeb, sensation, hollanders, searchers, nation, hens, moment.

Words that sound like bereft:
bereft, briefed, brett, bret, barrette, barette, burette, bref, brette, proofed, brit, britt, buffed, bruff, biffed, barritt, burritt, briffa, bright, bread, breast, brought, brief, brat, brute, bred, brate, brest, brite, brut, bratt, bruit, brecht, brot, brophy, borate, braff, beefed, breit, berat, braut, breet, braf, brott, brait, baft, boffed, brote, briefe, breste, briet, braat, brouette, pret, pref, brushed, brid, brust, bluffed, bricked, brist, brud, bricht, bryd, braford, breathed, bet, bert, beretta, birthed, bett, birt, bereaved, braced, birf, barfed, befort, birst, bernt, bafd, barrelled, biretta, bernd, birgit, berthed, birkett, birte, berte, bernet, berndt, bernett, birched, bereft of, birgitte, bourret, berget, berht, b.f, birchett, be left.