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Adjective: alienated  'ey-lee-u`ney-tid
  1. Socially disoriented
    "we live in an age of rootless alienated people"
    - anomic, disoriented
     
  2. Caused to be unloved
    - estranged
Verb: alienate  'ey-lee-u`neyt
  1. Arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
    "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious"
    - estrange, alien, disaffect
     
  2. Transfer property or ownership
    "The will alienated the property to the heirs"
    - alien
     
  3. Make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated
    "the boring work alienated his employees"

See also: alienable, alienator, unloved, unoriented

Type of: affect, alter, change, impress, modify, move, strike, transfer

Encyclopedia: Alienate

Alienated