Alienated [
'eiljəneitid]
a. 疏远的,被隔开的
- The Prime Minister's policy alienated many of her followers.
首相的政策使很多拥护她的人疏远了她. - He was alienated from his sister by her foolish acts.
他因姐姐的愚蠢行为而和她疏远了。
alienated[ adj ]- socially disoriented
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anomic loners musing over their fate
we live in an age of rootless alienated people
- caused to be unloved
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Alienate \Al"ien*ate\ (-[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Alienated};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Alienating}.]
1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or
right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of
averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to
estrange; to wean; -- with from.
The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and
priesthood from the House of Stuart. --Macaulay.
The recollection of his former life is a dream that
only the more alienates him from the realities of
the present. --I. Taylor.
alienated \alienated\ adj.
1. 1 socially disoriented. we live in an age of rootless
alienated people
Syn: anomic, disoriented
[WordNet 1.5]
2. having become indifferent or hostile to one's peers or
social group.
Syn: estranged
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]