Bereft - definition, pronunciation, transcription
adjective
- sorrowful through loss or deprivation (syn: bereaved, grieving, mourning)
Extra examples
...to one investigator, the bereft woman seemed to be taking the sudden death of her rich husband amazingly well...
...a cheap motel completely bereft of all amenities...
It's not that the country was completely bereft of humor.
I am bereft of all hope.
His death in 1990 left her completely bereft.
Left alone for a moment, he feels mournful, bereft—and then panicky, when he thinks he has been deserted again.
This is tough love with a vengeance, but what a gruesome view of God's saints bereft of all empathy.
...a speech awash in old-fashioned fustian and bereft of all substance...
An accident bereft the father of his child.
When his last plan failed, he was bereft of hope.
The team now seems bereft of inspiration.
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