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What is the adjective for fatherless?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb father which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

fatherly
  1. Characteristic of what is considered the ideal behaviour pertaining to fatherhood.
  2. Characteristic of fathers, paternal.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. caring, sympathetic, kind, kindly, benevolent, compassionate, loving, tender, affectionate, warm, understanding, benign, paternal, indulgent, forbearing, fatherlike, concerned, supportive, patriarchal, encouraging, protective, avuncular, motherly, maternal, warmhearted, solicitous, tenderhearted, considerate, softhearted, humane, good-natured, kindhearted, kind-hearted, gracious, warm-hearted, charitable, soft-hearted, soft, tender-hearted, gentle, thoughtful, merciful, beneficent, comforting, benignant, goodhearted, good-hearted, large-hearted, friendly, neighborly … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “This is commendable because the children will continue to have fatherly care, protection and support.”
      “Only the presence of the Huntsman provides any sort of male-oriented fatherly compassion.”
      “He is down-to-earth, friendly, fatherly and a seemingly great representative for the conscious movement.”
fatherless
  1. Without a (living) father.
  2. (figuratively) Without a known author or inventor.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. orphan, orphaned, motherless, parentless, abandoned, deserted, forsaken, dumped
  4. Examples:
      5. “And most important, the precipitous rise in fatherless households has finally begun to level off.”
      “So from one day to the next we found ourselves both fatherless and motherless.”
      “A fatherless child and husbandless mother were looked down on greatly, and that was one reputation I did not seek for myself or for my child.”
fatherlike
  1. having the qualities of a father
  2. Synonyms:
      3. fatherly, paternal, patriarchal, parental, benevolent, sympathetic, kindly, compassionate, warm, concerned, protective, paternalistic, solicitous, friendly, familial, caring, kind, loving, tender, affectionate, understanding, benign, indulgent, forbearing, supportive, encouraging, avuncular, maternal, motherly, gracious, comforting, empathetic, charitable, warmhearted, good-natured, helpful, nurturing, thoughtful, parent, genial, beneficent, affable, amiable, soft, considerate, pleasant, cordial, amicable, attentive, empathic … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “I figured if I wasn't going to be a father, I could assume an undefined fatherlike position.”
      “A heavyweight champion by the age of 20, Tyson's fatherlike figure D'Amato had already passed away.”
      “Dad was in there too, reading the paper or tinkering with our forever-malfunctioning refrigerator or something kitcheny and fatherlike.”
fathered
  1. simple past tense and past participle of father
  2. Synonyms:
      3. created, birthed, begat, begot, beared, parented, reared, sired, spawned, brought forth, brought into being, delivered, gave birth, gave birth to, gave life to, procreated, yielded, dropped, conceived, bred, reproduced, generated, engendered, brought to life, brought into the world, begotten, given life to, sown the seeds of, sowed the seeds of, produced, bore, mothered, had, made, propagated, yold, progenerated, hatched, effectuated, caused, induced, effected, occasioned, prompted, brought, fostered, catalyzed, invoked, did, worked … more
fathering
  1. present participle of father
  2. Synonyms:
      3. siring, begetting, conceiving, breeding, procreating, reproducing, spawning, engendering, generating, parenting, bringing to life, bringing into the world, bringing into being, giving life to, sowing the seeds of, nurturing, fostering, rearing, raising, supporting, developing, protecting, attending to, bringing up, caring for, looking after, providing for, taking care of, creating, originating, establishing, founding, instituting, producing, initiating, inventing, authoring, triggering, putting in place … more
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