estranging
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Making one feel out of place or alienated: Causing a feeling of being a stranger, disconnected, or emotionally separated from a person, place, or situation.
Usage
The adjective "estranging" is used to describe something (a situation, environment, feeling, or action) that actively creates a sense of alienation or emotional distance. It is often used in more formal or literary contexts.
Examples
- Adjective:
- The estranging silence of the empty house made her uneasy. (The silence actively created a feeling of alienation.)
- Moving to a new country can be an estranging experience at first. (The experience makes one feel out of place.)
- He used estranging imagery in his film to depict the character's isolation. (The imagery was designed to make the viewer feel the character's alienation.)
Advanced Usage
- Estranging effect: Describes the impact of something that creates alienation.
- The bureaucratic language of the document had an estranging effect on ordinary citizens.
- Estranging force: Portrays something as an active agent causing separation.
- Political ideology became an estranging force within the family.
Variants and Related Words
- Estrange (verb): To cause someone to be no longer close or affectionate; to alienate.
- His lies estranged him from his friends.
- Estranged (adjective): (Of a person) No longer close or affectionate; alienated. Often used for family members.
- She is divorced from her estranged husband.
- Estrangement (noun): The state of being estranged; alienation.
- Years of misunderstanding led to their estrangement.
Synonyms
- Alienating: Causing someone to feel isolated or estranged.
- Disaffecting: Causing someone to lose affection or loyalty.
- Distancing: Causing emotional separation.
Antonyms
- Endearing: Inspiring affection.
- Unifying: Making or becoming united.
- Reconciling: Restoring friendly relations.
Adjective
- making one feel out of place or alienated
- the landscape was estranging