Synonyms of motherless

motherless

adjective

as in fatherless

Related Words

• fatherless
• illegitimate
• misbegotten
• supposititious
• spurious
• nameless
• orphaned
• baseborn
• adopted
• unfathered
• natural

Dissimilar Words

• legitimate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of motherless

The fifteen titles include Hosam Abu Dan’s Gaza-shot drama Thirteen in Gaza, a coming-of-age drama about a motherless thirteen-year-old living with her father in a Gaza displacement camp without privacy or protection. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026

Cathy leaves her twin boys motherless, but Adam leaves them fatherless. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026

Jayson and Robbie fought over the future of their two motherless children, and now all four children are both motherless and fatherless. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2026

Emotions continue in Loren Entz’s A Helping Hand, with its lone motherless calf caught in a snowstorm. — Carolanne Griffith Roberts, Southern Living, 18 Aug. 2026

The story is narrated by Eshe, a motherless pregnant teenager whose love for her brother Skeetah is at the heart of the novel, along with Skeetah’s love for his prize pitbull, China. — Literary Hub, 9 June 2026

Expect rich character development in both Vernice and Annie—two motherless best friends being raised in the Jim Crow South—and absorbing prose in this sweeping saga. — Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 5 June 2026

Racine and Anaia are motherless and fatherless. — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 1 June 2026

At Helen Woodward Animal Center, one polydactyly mother cat has stretched out her paws to a litter of six motherless kittens to join her own, a news release stated. — News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2026