friendless

From Middle English frendles, from Old English frēondlēas, equivalent to friend +‎ -less.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfrɛndləs/
• (dialectal) IPA^(key): /ˈfrɪndləs/

friendless (not comparable)

1. Without friends (without a friend).

   friendless homebody

   • 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 50:

     While Conservative and Labour MPs instinctively had deep political differences, they were united in the cold view that at the end of the 1950s, Britain's railways were friendless and almost finished.

• enemyless

• friendlessly
• friendlessness

• enemylessness