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Definition of homeless : Destitute of a home.

Synonyms:

roofless, homeless person, stateless, unfortunate, unsettled, dispossessed

forsaken, outside the gates, vagabond, unhoused, wandering, exiled, disinherited, left to shift for oneself, unwelcome, abandoned, vagrant, having no home, outcast, friendless, beyond the pale, uncared-for, displaced, unplaced, itinerant, estranged, houseless, without a country, derelict, banished, unestablished

distressed, impoverished, penniless, bereft, hand-to-mouth, squalid, poor, busted, beggarly, pauper, shabby, destitute, down-and-out, bankrupt, dilapidated, poverty-stricken, penurious, scruffy, have-not, embarrassed

Usage examples:

• " I am foolish, I know," said Mary, " but I just feel homeless without any relatives here in Scotland. - "White Queen of the Cannibals: The Story of Mary Slessor", A. J. Bueltmann.
• Such distracting mismanagement in the nursery is enough to make a homeless wanderer of any father. - "Bird-Neighbors", Blanchan, Neltje.
• I stand here," he went on, with a gesture that was not without grandeur, " alone and homeless, to- day; I do not know where I shall lie to- night. - "The Red Cockade", Stanley J. Weyman.