Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Caused to be unloved or estranged: Feeling isolated or separated from a person, group, or activity with which one was formerly connected, often resulting in feelings of hostility or indifference.
   • Socially disoriented or rootless: Experiencing a sense of detachment, powerlessness, or exclusion from society, its norms, or values.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • She felt alienated from her old friends after moving to a new city.
  • The company's new policies alienated many of its long-term employees.
  • We live in an age of rootless, alienated people.

Advanced Usage

• "to feel alienated from": to experience a sense of separation or estrangement from someone or something.
  • He began to feel alienated from his own family due to their differing political views.
• "alienated youth": young people who feel disconnected from mainstream society.
  • The program aims to reach out to alienated youth in the inner city.

Variants and Related Words

• Alienate (verb): To cause someone to feel isolated or estranged.
  • His rude behavior alienated his colleagues.
• Alienation (noun): The state or experience of being alienated.
  • Social alienation is a common theme in modern literature.

Synonyms

• Estranged: No longer close or affectionate to someone; alienated.
• Detached: Separate or disconnected, often emotionally.
• Disaffected: Dissatisfied with people in authority and no longer willing to support them.

Related Phrases

• "A sense of alienation": A feeling of being isolated or separated from one's surroundings or society.
  • Immigrants sometimes struggle with a deep sense of alienation.

Adjective

1. caused to be unloved
2. socially disoriented
   • anomic loners musing over their fate
   • we live in an age of rootless alienated people