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Synonyms for homeless
ˈhoʊm lɪshome·less

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  1. homeless, homeless personnoun

    someone unfortunate without housing

    "a homeless was found murdered in Central Park"

    Synonyms:
    homeless person

    Antonyms:
    settled, fortunate

  2. homelessadjective

    poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in

    "the homeless became a problem in the large cities"

    Synonyms:
    homeless person

    Antonyms:
    settled, fortunate

  3. homeless, statelessadjective

    without nationality or citizenship

    "stateless persons"

    Synonyms:
    roofless, stateless, dispossessed

    Antonyms:
    fortunate, settled

  4. dispossessed, homeless, rooflessadjective

    physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security

    "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern

    Synonyms:
    stateless, roofless, dispossessed

    Antonyms:
    settled, fortunate

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  1. List of paraphrases for "homeless":

    homelessness, displaced, sleepers, stray

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Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#8708homeless
#13652displaced
#17924homelessness
#18651stray
#34811sleepers
#43079stateless
#67857dispossessed
#228170roofless

How to use homeless in a sentence?

  1. King County:

    What we’re doing is attracting homeless from all across the United States because the benefits are so good, because you can get anything you want.

  2. William Justice:

    Every year, it helps many thousands of people through food, housing, shelter programs for people at risk including homeless mothers and families, and in countless other ways.

  3. Simon Missiri:

    Many families with young children and the elderly have been left homeless. They are living in makeshift shelters on embankments and river banks, for well over a month people's coping mechanisms have been worn down by successive waves of flooding. Cyclone Komen made a bad situation even worse. There are high levels of vulnerability in these communities which must not be neglected.

  4. Vincent Champion:

    It has gone from a place where street people try to find a place to sleep, to some of those homeless deciding to just attack passengers.

  5. José Andrés:

    It's an amazing organization founded by Robert Egger, dC Central Kitchen is where we're training people to be cooks, finding them jobs in their community, and feeding the homeless population of DC.


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