Antonyms for waifwaif

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1. • Child

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1. waif, street childnoun

   a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned

   "street children beg or steal in order to survive"

   Synonyms:
   street child

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1. waifnoun

   Synonyms:
   estray, stray, wastrel

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:5.0 / 45 votes

1. socialite

   (n.) a person (usually a child) without a home or friend; a stray person or animal; something that comes along by chance, a stray bit

   she distributed warm blankets to the waif.

   Submitted by anonymous on October 7, 2019  

How to use waif in a sentence?

1. Thomas Carlyle:

   A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

2. Thomas Carlyle:

   The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

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