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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  alienated \alienated\ adj.
     1. 1 socially disoriented. we live in an age of rootless
        alienated people
  
     Syn: anomic, disoriented
          [WordNet 1.5]


  
     2. having become indifferent or hostile to one's peers or
        social group.
  
     Syn: estranged
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Alienate \Al"ien*ate\ (-[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Alienated};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Alienating}.]
     1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or
        right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of
        averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to
        estrange; to wean; -- with from.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and
              priesthood from the House of Stuart.  --Macaulay.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The recollection of his former life is a dream that
              only the more alienates him from the realities of
              the present.                          --I. Taylor.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  alienated
       adj 1: socially disoriented; "anomic loners musing over their
              fate"; "we live in an age of rootless alienated
              people" [syn: {anomic}, {disoriented}]
       2: caused to be unloved [syn: {estranged}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "alienated":
     alone, aloof, antiestablishment, apart, at odds with,
     at variance with, breakaway, companionless, counter-culture,
     detached, differing, disaffected, disagreeing, disarticulated,
     disconnected, disengaged, disjoined, disjoint, disjointed,
     disjunct, dislocated, dispersed, dissentient, dissenting,
     dissident, disunited, divided, divorced, estranged, friendless,
     homeless, in opposition, insular, irreconcilable, isolated,
     kithless, lone, lonely, lonesome, nonconforming, opposing,
     recusant, removed, rootless, scattered, sectarian, sectary,
     segregated, separate, separated, sequestered, shut off,
     single-handed, solitary, solo, torn, unabetted, unaccompanied,
     unaided, unassisted, unattended, underground, unescorted,
     unseconded, unsupported, withdrawn
  
  

















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