bereft | Definition of bereft

Synonyms and Antonyms of bereft

1 suffering the death of a loved one

to one investigator, the bereft woman seemed to be taking the sudden death of her rich husband amazingly well

Synonyms of bereft

Words Related to bereft

orphaned, widowed

distressed, grieving, melancholy, miserable, mournful, mourning, sad, sorrowing, suffering, unhappy, upset

bemoaning, crying, lamenting, wailing, weeping

2 utterly lacking in something needed, wanted, or expected

a cheap motel completely bereft of all amenities

Synonyms of bereft

bankrupt, bare, barren, destitute, devoid, void

Words Related to bereft

blank, empty, innocent, stark, vacant, wanting

deficient, fragmental, fragmentary, incomplete, insufficient, partial, short

absent, missing

Near Antonyms of bereft

furnished, provided, supplied

brimming, bulging, bursting, chock-full (or chockful), crammed, crowded, fat, jammed, jam-packed, loaded, packed, saturated, stuffed

abounding, swarming, teeming, thick, thronging

Antonyms of bereft

filled, flush, fraught, full, replete, rife