Synonyms for fatherless
fa·ther·less

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1. fatherlessadjective

   having no living father

   Antonyms:
   parented, legitimate

2. fatherlessadjective

   not having a known or legally responsible father

   Antonyms:
   legitimate, parented

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1. List of paraphrases for "fatherless":

   orphans, orphaned

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1. Ezra Levant:

   He was just a few weeks shy of his 16th birthday. We prosecute murderers at that age all the time. He was no child, there were real children involved here — the fatherless kids of Christopher Speer, Christopher Speer.

2. Chyna Whitaker:

   I am now a single mother not by choice but by force, he is now 2 years old and, since April 11, 2021, fatherless.

3. Herschel Walker:

   And I want to apologize to the African American community, because the fatherless home is a major, major problem.

4. Cindy De La Hoz:

   She was a fatherless child, her birth father would not marry her mother … He allowed [ Sophia ] to use his last name, but everyone in town knew she was illegitimate. She was made fun of for that. And growing up, she saw war all around her house. She had very, very little food. When air raids would strike the town, she and her family would run for over and had to go in hiding … There was disease, rodents … Because they had such scarcity of food, she was very, very thin. That’s how she gained her nickname in school, Toothpick.

5. Sally Struthers:

   In 1968, my own father passed away, i was still feeling bad and fatherless when I got this show. Carroll and his wife, Nancy, turned out to be as parental with me as he was in the show. Carroll gave me advice, he laughed at my antics, he hugged me all the time – and he introduced me to my husband, [William Rader]! So I gained a father again by doing that show.