alienated
adjective
alien·at·ed
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Definition of alienated
: feeling withdrawn or separated from others or from society as a whole : affected by alienation
feeling lonely and alienated ⊠after the success of 1969's "Easy Rider," a paean to the alienated youth of the hippie generation ⊗ Lisa Stein
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In Kerala, one of Indiaâs most socially advanced states, aborigines form 1.45% of the 33.4 million population (2011 Census), but have remained alienated. — K A Shaji, Quartz India, "In a tribal corner of India, two worlds are clashing over an elephantâand his name," 28 Aug. 2019 In the show, that kid, another alienated teenager named Connor Murphy, commits suicide, and through several misunderstandings, his heartbroken family comes to believe that Evan had a secret friendship with their son. — Christopher Wallenberg, BostonGlobe.com, "The creators of âDear Evan Hansenâ peered into the artifice of social media and found a hit," 4 July 2019 Such statements are greeted with no small amount of alarm by young Hong Kongers, who are the most alienated from China of any generation, despite concerted efforts by both the local and central governments to inculcate greater levels of patriotism. — James Griffiths, CNN, "Why Hong Kong's young protesters feel they're running out of time in fight for democracy," 25 July 2019 Tilneyâs book eschews the trope of the alienated narrator. — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, "How a Novel Can Unmake the Myth of Meritocracy," 16 July 2019 Palmer, an African-American Jew, hopes the event will help communal leaders make sure Jews of color donât feel alienated. — Josefin Dolsten, sun-sentinel.com, "Jews of color are chronically undercounted, researchers find," 5 June 2019 How did people become so alienated from their government? — Sean Illing, Vox, "Why so many people who need the government hate it," 17 Aug. 2018 The foreign-policy establishment across both parties supported an ambitious global agenda, but increasingly alienated populists preferred to pull back. — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, "Trumpâs Populist Schism Over Syria," 23 Dec. 2018 Platforms like Donald Daters make sense in coastal cities like New York and Los Angeles, where a majority of voters lean blue and where, as a result, conservatives may feel alienated. — Gaby Del Valle, Vox, "âFor conservatives, by conservativesâ: the rise of right-wing dating apps," 26 Dec. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'alienated.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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