"bereft" meaning in English

See bereft in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /bəˈɹɛft/ Audio: en-us-bereft.ogg , en-au-bereft.ogg
Rhymes: -ɛft Etymology: From Middle English bireft, v. Middle English bireven. Synchronically a form of bereaved; compare leave and left. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|bireft}} Middle English bireft, {{cog|enm|bireven}} Middle English bireven Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} bereft (not comparable)
  1. (of a person) Pained by the loss of someone. Tags: not-comparable Translations (pained by the loss of someone): лишен (lišen) (Bulgarian), připravený o co (Czech), zbavený čeho (Czech), sureva (Finnish), kaipaava (Finnish), surullinen (Finnish), hinterblieben (German), deprivato (Italian), orbus (Latin), ли́шен (líšen) (Macedonian), osamotniony (Polish), утративший (utrativšij) (Russian), лишённый (lišónnyj) (Russian), afligido (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-bereft-en-adj-Jjj8wkBW Categories (other): Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 20 36 31 13 Disambiguation of 'pained by the loss of someone': 95 1 4
  2. Deprived of, stripped of, robbed of. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-bereft-en-adj-iOUTCuRH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Icelandic translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Māori translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 49 19 8 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 21 38 31 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 14 58 21 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 12 65 18 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 17 42 29 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 19 41 28 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 17 42 29 12 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 21 39 29 10 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 17 42 29 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Icelandic translations: 17 42 29 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 17 49 26 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 17 49 26 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 19 41 28 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Māori translations: 18 47 27 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 20 36 31 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 16 34 24 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 17 49 26 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 16 54 22 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 16 43 28 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 16 43 28 13
  3. Lacking, devoid of. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: barren, destitute
    Sense id: en-bereft-en-adj-Zb3VBlid Categories (other): Terms with Polish translations, Sadness Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 20 36 31 13 Disambiguation of Sadness: 26 0 74 0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bereftness, unbereft Translations (deprived of): лишен (lišen) (Bulgarian), zbavený m čeho (Czech), ilman (Finnish), osaton (Finnish), privé de (French), beraubt (German), verlassen (German), svipta (Icelandic), taka frá (Icelandic), deprivato (Italian), orbato (Italian), orbus (Latin), ли́шен (líšen) (Macedonian), tukaunga (Māori), pozbawiony (Polish), destituído (Portuguese), privado (Portuguese), утративший (utrativšij) (Russian), лишённый (lišónnyj) (Russian), ограбленный (ograblennyj) (Russian), privado (Spanish), despojado (Spanish), desprovisto (Spanish), desproveído (Spanish), carente (Spanish), sin- [prefix] (Spanish), falto (Spanish), berövad (Swedish), yoksun (Turkish), mahrum (Turkish)
Disambiguation of 'deprived of': 3 46 51

Verb

IPA: /bəˈɹɛft/ Audio: en-us-bereft.ogg , en-au-bereft.ogg
Rhymes: -ɛft Etymology: From Middle English bireft, v. Middle English bireven. Synchronically a form of bereaved; compare leave and left. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|bireft}} Middle English bireft, {{cog|enm|bireven}} Middle English bireven Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} bereft
  1. simple past and past participle of bereave Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: bereave
    Sense id: en-bereft-en-verb-Y07tynfV Categories (other): English terms with collocations, Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 20 36 31 13
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "bireft"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English bireft",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "bireven"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English bireven",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English bireft, v. Middle English bireven. Synchronically a form of bereaved; compare leave and left.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "bereft",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with collocations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "20 36 31 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              6
            ]
          ],
          "english": "powerless",
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "bereft of strength",
          "translation": "powerless",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              6
            ]
          ],
          "english": "mindless, being an idiot",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Yorkshire dialect"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "bereft of gorm",
          "translation": "mindless, being an idiot",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "bereave"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "simple past and past participle of bereave"
      ],
      "id": "en-bereft-en-verb-Y07tynfV",
      "links": [
        [
          "bereave",
          "bereave#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bəˈɹɛft/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-bereft.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/28/En-us-bereft.ogg/En-us-bereft.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/En-us-bereft.ogg"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-bereft.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ad/En-au-bereft.ogg/En-au-bereft.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/En-au-bereft.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛft"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bereft"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "bereftness"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "unbereft"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "bireft"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English bireft",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "bireven"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English bireven",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English bireft, v. Middle English bireven. Synchronically a form of bereaved; compare leave and left.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "bereft (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "20 36 31 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              14,
              20
            ]
          ],
          "text": "I was utterly bereft in the months following my wife's death.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              131,
              137
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport):",
          "text": "[Oscar] Pistorius's punishment for killing her [Reeva Steenkamp] that night is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Pained by the loss of someone."
      ],
      "id": "en-bereft-en-adj-Jjj8wkBW",
      "links": [
        [
          "Pained",
          "pained"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a person) Pained by the loss of someone."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a person"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "95 1 4",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "lang_code": "bg",
          "roman": "lišen",
          "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
          "word": "лишен"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 1 4",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "lang_code": "cs",
          "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
          "word": "připravený o co"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 1 4",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "lang_code": "cs",
          "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
          "word": "zbavený čeho"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 1 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "lang_code": "fi",
          "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
          "word": "sureva"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 1 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "lang_code": "fi",
          "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
          "word": "kaipaava"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 1 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "lang_code": "fi",
          "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
          "word": "surullinen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 1 4",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "lang_code": "de",
          "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
          "word": "hinterblieben"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 1 4",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "lang_code": "it",
          "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
          "word": "deprivato"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 1 4",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "lang_code": "la",
          "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
          "word": "orbus"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 1 4",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "lang_code": "mk",
          "roman": "líšen",
          "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
          "word": "ли́шен"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 1 4",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "lang_code": "pl",
          "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
          "word": "osamotniony"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 1 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "lang_code": "ru",
          "roman": "utrativšij",
          "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
          "word": "утративший"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 1 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "lang_code": "ru",
          "roman": "lišónnyj",
          "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
          "word": "лишённый"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 1 4",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "lang_code": "es",
          "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
          "word": "afligido"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "23 49 19 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 38 31 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 58 21 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "12 65 18 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "17 42 29 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "19 41 28 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Czech translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "17 42 29 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 39 29 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "17 42 29 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "17 42 29 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Icelandic translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "17 49 26 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Italian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "17 49 26 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Latin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "19 41 28 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Macedonian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 47 27 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Māori translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "20 36 31 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 34 24 27",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "17 49 26 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 54 22 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 43 28 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 43 28 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Turkish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              251,
              257
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1909, Robert W[illiam] Service, “The Ballad of One-eyed Mike”, in Ballads of a Cheechako, Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, →OCLC, stanzas 3–4, page 52:",
          "text": "And there I strove, and there I clove through the drift of icy streams; / And there I fought, and there I sought for the pay-streak of my dreams. // So twenty years, with their hopes and fears and smiles and tears and such, / Went by and left me long bereft of hope of the Midas touch; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              123,
              129
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1969 December 7, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, spoken by Mr Praline (John Cleese):",
          "text": "This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It’s expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It’s a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              82,
              88
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2011 November 3, David Ornstein, “Macc Tel-Aviv 1–2 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:",
          "text": "The hosts had not lost in 12 home European games but looked shaky at the back and bereft of attacking ideas, inviting Stoke forward for further opportunities.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Deprived of, stripped of, robbed of."
      ],
      "id": "en-bereft-en-adj-iOUTCuRH",
      "links": [
        [
          "Deprived",
          "deprived"
        ],
        [
          "stripped",
          "stripped"
        ],
        [
          "robbed",
          "robbed"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "20 36 31 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "26 0 74 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sadness",
          "orig": "en:Sadness",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Lacking, devoid of."
      ],
      "id": "en-bereft-en-adj-Zb3VBlid",
      "links": [
        [
          "Lacking",
          "lacking"
        ],
        [
          "devoid",
          "devoid"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "barren"
        },
        {
          "word": "destitute"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bəˈɹɛft/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-bereft.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/28/En-us-bereft.ogg/En-us-bereft.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/En-us-bereft.ogg"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-bereft.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ad/En-au-bereft.ogg/En-au-bereft.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/En-au-bereft.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛft"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "lang_code": "bg",
      "roman": "lišen",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "лишен"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "zbavený m čeho"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "ilman"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "osaton"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "privé de"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "beraubt"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "verlassen"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "lang_code": "is",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "svipta"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "lang_code": "is",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "taka frá"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "deprivato"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "orbato"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "orbus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "lang_code": "mk",
      "roman": "líšen",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "ли́шен"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Māori",
      "lang_code": "mi",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "tukaunga"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "pozbawiony"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "destituído"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "privado"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "utrativšij",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "утративший"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "lišónnyj",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "лишённый"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "ograblennyj",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "ограбленный"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "privado"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "despojado"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "desprovisto"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "desproveído"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "carente"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "note": "sin (preposition)",
      "sense": "deprived of"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "tags": [
        "prefix"
      ],
      "word": "sin-"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "falto"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "berövad"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "yoksun"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "3 46 51",
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "mahrum"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bereft"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "English verb forms",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛft",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛft/2 syllables",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Icelandic translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Macedonian translations",
    "Terms with Māori translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations",
    "en:Sadness"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "bireft"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English bireft",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "bireven"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English bireven",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English bireft, v. Middle English bireven. Synchronically a form of bereaved; compare leave and left.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "bereft",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with collocations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              6
            ]
          ],
          "english": "powerless",
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "bereft of strength",
          "translation": "powerless",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              6
            ]
          ],
          "english": "mindless, being an idiot",
          "raw_tags": [
            "Yorkshire dialect"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "bereft of gorm",
          "translation": "mindless, being an idiot",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "bereave"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "simple past and past participle of bereave"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bereave",
          "bereave#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bəˈɹɛft/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-bereft.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/28/En-us-bereft.ogg/En-us-bereft.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/En-us-bereft.ogg"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-bereft.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ad/En-au-bereft.ogg/En-au-bereft.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/En-au-bereft.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛft"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bereft"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "English verb forms",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛft",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛft/2 syllables",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Icelandic translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Macedonian translations",
    "Terms with Māori translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations",
    "en:Sadness"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "bereftness"
    },
    {
      "word": "unbereft"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "bireft"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English bireft",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "bireven"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English bireven",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English bireft, v. Middle English bireven. Synchronically a form of bereaved; compare leave and left.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "bereft (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              14,
              20
            ]
          ],
          "text": "I was utterly bereft in the months following my wife's death.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              131,
              137
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport):",
          "text": "[Oscar] Pistorius's punishment for killing her [Reeva Steenkamp] that night is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Pained by the loss of someone."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Pained",
          "pained"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a person) Pained by the loss of someone."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a person"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              251,
              257
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1909, Robert W[illiam] Service, “The Ballad of One-eyed Mike”, in Ballads of a Cheechako, Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, →OCLC, stanzas 3–4, page 52:",
          "text": "And there I strove, and there I clove through the drift of icy streams; / And there I fought, and there I sought for the pay-streak of my dreams. // So twenty years, with their hopes and fears and smiles and tears and such, / Went by and left me long bereft of hope of the Midas touch; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              123,
              129
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1969 December 7, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, spoken by Mr Praline (John Cleese):",
          "text": "This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It’s expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It’s a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              82,
              88
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2011 November 3, David Ornstein, “Macc Tel-Aviv 1–2 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:",
          "text": "The hosts had not lost in 12 home European games but looked shaky at the back and bereft of attacking ideas, inviting Stoke forward for further opportunities.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Deprived of, stripped of, robbed of."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Deprived",
          "deprived"
        ],
        [
          "stripped",
          "stripped"
        ],
        [
          "robbed",
          "robbed"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Lacking, devoid of."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Lacking",
          "lacking"
        ],
        [
          "devoid",
          "devoid"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "barren"
        },
        {
          "word": "destitute"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bəˈɹɛft/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-bereft.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/28/En-us-bereft.ogg/En-us-bereft.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/En-us-bereft.ogg"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-bereft.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ad/En-au-bereft.ogg/En-au-bereft.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/En-au-bereft.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛft"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "lang_code": "bg",
      "roman": "lišen",
      "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
      "word": "лишен"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
      "word": "připravený o co"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
      "word": "zbavený čeho"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
      "word": "sureva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
      "word": "kaipaava"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
      "word": "surullinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
      "word": "hinterblieben"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
      "word": "deprivato"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
      "word": "orbus"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "lang_code": "mk",
      "roman": "líšen",
      "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
      "word": "ли́шен"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
      "word": "osamotniony"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "utrativšij",
      "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
      "word": "утративший"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "lišónnyj",
      "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
      "word": "лишённый"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "pained by the loss of someone",
      "word": "afligido"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "lang_code": "bg",
      "roman": "lišen",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "лишен"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "zbavený m čeho"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "ilman"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "osaton"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "privé de"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "beraubt"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "verlassen"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "lang_code": "is",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "svipta"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "lang_code": "is",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "taka frá"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "deprivato"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "orbato"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "orbus"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "lang_code": "mk",
      "roman": "líšen",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "ли́шен"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Māori",
      "lang_code": "mi",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "tukaunga"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "pozbawiony"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "destituído"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "privado"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "utrativšij",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "утративший"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "lišónnyj",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "лишённый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "ograblennyj",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "ограбленный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "privado"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "despojado"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "desprovisto"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "desproveído"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "carente"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "note": "sin (preposition)",
      "sense": "deprived of"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "tags": [
        "prefix"
      ],
      "word": "sin-"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "falto"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "berövad"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "yoksun"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "deprived of",
      "word": "mahrum"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bereft"
}

Download raw JSONL data for bereft meaning in English (12.0kB)

{
  "called_from": "page/2530",
  "msg": "skipping string in the middle of translations: </table></div></div>\n\n",
  "path": [
    "bereft"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "adjective",
  "title": "bereft",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-02-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.