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Definition of estranged : of Estrange

Synonyms:

lonely, cosy, brotherly, anomic, friendless, clannish, adrift, arm's-length, isolated, chummy, common law, acquainted, engaged, available, unloved, close, lonesome, connected, disoriented, live-in, footloose, de facto, lone, brittle, alone, abandoned, forlorn, fancy-free

distanced, disunited, disaffected, alienated, divided, pushed away, divorced

disintegrated, incised, cut, uncoupled, disassociated, excised, bisected, pared, cleaved, unhinged, amputated, dissected, broke, broken, unfixed, severed, disjoined, unglued, halved, rent, dismantled, ripped, fragmented, axed, disengaged, disassembled, sliced, split, parted, insulated, sundered

foreign, inappropriate, inadmissible, outer, extraterrestrial, dissociated, nonessential, exotic, eerie, separated, foreign-born, extrinsic, disconnected, outlandish, strange, unaffiliated, immaterial, other, alien, impertinent, detached, parenthetical, outside, removed, segregated, inapplicable, separate, external, unessential, unallied, disjoint, extraneous, irrelevant, unrelated, disaffiliated

Usage examples:

• My dear friend, one doesn't have to go to India to become estranged from one's family. - "Honor: A Play in Four Acts", Hermann Sudermann.
• True worth and virtue, modesty and faith, And love of justice, in whatever land, From public business will be still estranged, Or utterly humiliated and O'erthrown; condemned by Nature still, To sink unto the bottom. - "The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi", Giacomo Leopardi.
• On many occasions I have met her;- sometimes she has estranged herself from me,- sometimes she has been torn from me by others- and still more often I have, through my own folly and obstinacy, separated myself from her- but our mutual mistakes do no more than delay the inevitable union at last. - "The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance", Marie Corelli.