Synonyms:
fatherless
Meaning: not having a known or legally responsible father
Synonyms:
fatherless
Meaning: having no living father
Usage examples
If this be done, perchance the orphan will not be fatherless all his days."
'I have heerd her tell,' said Mr. Peggotty, 'as you was early left fatherless and motherless, with no friend fur to take, in a rough seafaring-way, their place.
Little children with tearful faces pressed against the pane watch and wait. Their means of livelihood, their home, their happiness is gone. Fatherless children, broken-hearted women, sick, disabled and dead men--this is the wage of war.