Synonyms for alienated
alien·at·ed

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1. alienated

   Synonyms:
   adverse, antagonistic, bellicose, belligerent, cold, contentious, disaffected, distant, estranged, frigid, hostile, ill-disposed, indifferent, inimical, unfriendly, unkind, warlike

   Antonyms:
   accessible, affable, affectionate, amicable, brotherly, companionable, complaisant, cordial, favorable, fond, friendly, genial, hearty, kind, kindly, loving, neighborly, sociable, social, tender, well-disposed

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1. alienated, anomic, disorientedadjective

   socially disoriented

   "anomic loners musing over their fate"; "we live in an age of rootless alienated people"

   Synonyms:
   lost, estranged, disoriented, confused, anomic

   Antonyms:
   orientated, oriented, loved

2. alienated, estrangedadjective

   caused to be unloved

   Synonyms:
   estranged, disoriented, anomic

   Antonyms:
   oriented, loved, orientated

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1. List of paraphrases for "alienated":

   disposed, misunderstood, marginalized

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1. Václav Havel:

   Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.

2. Philip Wallach:

   For all the sort of ways that [ Chief Justice John Roberts ] has alienated some of the conservative movement legal folks through some of his rulings, he has seemed interested in disciplining bureaucratic agencies in a number of ways, and he's very interested in the separation of powers.

3. Veteran Republican strategist Brian Walsh:

   He cuts both ways. There’s no question that he helps turn out a lot of new voters that traditionally hadn’t voted or hadn’t voted for Republicans, on the other hand, he also alienated a number of college-educated suburban voters.

4. Nik Nanos:

   If in 2015, someone had said that Justin Trudeau would not only approve a pipeline but invest in a pipeline, they would have said you were smoking something, he made a decision trying to balance his environmental aspirations with jobs, and in the process, either disappointed or alienated many Canadians.

5. Jeffrey Swanson:

   If we were to cure mental illness, all of it, tomorrow, how much of our violence problem would go down ? It would go down about 4 percent, the mass shooters, with some exception, have been angry, alienated, emotionally trouble young men who act out these incredibly deviant cultural scripts and have access to firearms.