Bereft
adjective
Lacking something needed, wanted, or expected.
She was left bereft of her dignity.
Often appears as...
- bereft of hope
- bereft of life
adjective
Suffering the death of a loved one.
After the funeral, I felt bereft.
Often appears as...
- bereft of feelings
- bereft of comfort
adjective
Lacking something needed, wanted, or expected.
She was left bereft of her dignity.
Often appears as...
- bereft of hope
- bereft of life
adjective
Suffering the death of a loved one.
After the funeral, I felt bereft.
Often appears as...
- bereft of feelings
- bereft of comfort
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Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Often implies deep loss or emptiness that impacts emotions.
Her voice was bereft of joy.
Pro Tip 2/3Use with abstracts
Works well with abstract concepts, like hope or love, not just physical things.
They sat there, bereft of hope.
Pro Tip 3/3Not just lack
'Bereft' describes a lack due to a significant loss, not just any absence.
After the storm, the city was bereft of electricity.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Often implies deep loss or emptiness that impacts emotions.
Her voice was bereft of joy.
Pro Tip 2/3Use with abstracts
Works well with abstract concepts, like hope or love, not just physical things.
They sat there, bereft of hope.
Pro Tip 3/3Not just lack
'Bereft' describes a lack due to a significant loss, not just any absence.
After the storm, the city was bereft of electricity.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Often implies deep loss or emptiness that impacts emotions.
Her voice was bereft of joy.
Pro Tip 2/3Use with abstracts
Works well with abstract concepts, like hope or love, not just physical things.
They sat there, bereft of hope.
Pro Tip 3/3Not just lack
'Bereft' describes a lack due to a significant loss, not just any absence.
After the storm, the city was bereft of electricity.
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How to escape...
you change the conditions, give people a different sense of possibility, a different set of expectations, a broader range of opportunities, you cherish and value the relationships between teachers and learners, you offer people the discretion to be creative and to innovate in what they do, and schools that were once bereft spring to life. Great leaders know that.
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Safari Live - Day 222 PIPE...
them always following them around and I can only imagine that they feel a little bereft our as our lions asleep peacefully the same cannot be said for the Lions of Juma know what we've got here is the lioness of the incomer pride
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Brutal Lion Infanticide...
It causes the bereft lionesses quickly to come into season. However, the lionesses need a strong coalition of males for their future protection So, they must prevent them fighting over sex.
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Breaking the illusion of...
hemisphere ik environments were bereft of the potential to make vitamin D in their skin for most of the year this had tremendous consequences for the evolution of human skin pigmentation
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How to escape...
you change the conditions, give people a different sense of possibility, a different set of expectations, a broader range of opportunities, you cherish and value the relationships between teachers and learners, you offer people the discretion to be creative and to innovate in what they do, and schools that were once bereft spring to life. Great leaders know that.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 222 PIPE...
them always following them around and I can only imagine that they feel a little bereft our as our lions asleep peacefully the same cannot be said for the Lions of Juma know what we've got here is the lioness of the incomer pride
Video examples
Brutal Lion Infanticide...
It causes the bereft lionesses quickly to come into season. However, the lionesses need a strong coalition of males for their future protection So, they must prevent them fighting over sex.
Video examples
Breaking the illusion of...
hemisphere ik environments were bereft of the potential to make vitamin D in their skin for most of the year this had tremendous consequences for the evolution of human skin pigmentation
Example 1 of 4
Quote examples
Anthony Hopkins
Welsh Actor
Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.
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David Bowie
English Musician
I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Roman Statesman
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
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Richard Dawkins
English Scientist
The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place.
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George Matthew Adams
American Editor
It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
English Poet
What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.
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Max Apple
American Writer
A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.
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Orrin Hatch
Politician
I'm for helping the poor, always have been. And I don't think they should be bereft of healthcare.
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Stefanie Powers
American Actress
We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age.
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Ben Kingsley
English Actor
I have never felt bereft of anything.
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Anthony Hopkins
Welsh Actor
Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.
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David Bowie
English Musician
I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Roman Statesman
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
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Richard Dawkins
English Scientist
The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place.
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George Matthew Adams
American Editor
It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
English Poet
What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.
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Max Apple
American Writer
A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.
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Orrin Hatch
Politician
I'm for helping the poor, always have been. And I don't think they should be bereft of healthcare.
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Stefanie Powers
American Actress
We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age.
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Ben Kingsley
English Actor
I have never felt bereft of anything.
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