motherless

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Editorial note

Now, a place like motherless, with only a marginal amount of moderation to filter out the illegal stuff....maybe.

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Quick take

Without a (living) mother.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of motherless gathered in one view.

adjective

Without a (living) mother.

adjective

Without mother (mucilaginous substance in fermenting liquid).

adverb

(South Africa, Australia, slang) very, completely (especially in reference to drunkenness)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for motherless.

adjective

Without a (living) mother.

See also: parentless, unparented

adjective

Without mother (mucilaginous substance in fermenting liquid).

See also: parentless, unparented

adverb

(South Africa, Australia, slang) very, completely (especially in reference to drunkenness)

See also: parentless, unparented

adjective

(figurative) Without a history or predecessor.

See also: parentless, unparented

Example sentences

Now, a place like motherless, with only a marginal amount of moderation to filter out the illegal stuff....maybe.

Show me the privacy law that makes sites like motherless or 4chan archives take down images in the United States?

Contrary to that Elon was bullied as a child in a motherless household with a task master of a father.

She's leaving behind several young, motherless children (perhaps even a newborn) who also don't have a great chance in the world.

Sure, but as they say: Success has a thousand fathers, failure is a motherless child.

Then after 5 our more years, you've made 20K and are stone motherless broke.

What's to stop them from seeing 4chan or motherless or anything like that?

All that are left are the fawns, dozens and dozens of them, motherless.

If they've narrowed down their target market by videos viewed on motherless, I'd be damned curious to see the ads.

I just read Motherless Brooklyn and thought it did a good job of explaining the compulsion.

From now on, I'm going to imagine my keys are a motherless brood of koalas...

Follow with Chronic City and Motherless Brooklyn.

Quote examples

I found Motherless Brooklyn (detective with Tourette's) in a quest pack of "heroes with issues".

I used to amuse myself (way back in the Stone Age, when I was in college and didn't know better) by using amusing and unique invectives for error messages like 'or die "you son of a motherless goat"'.

Turns out "bad" is in the list, along with stuff like "workaround", "hard-coded", and also a huge list of every slur and vaguely sexual term known to man, some of them oddly specific like "son of a motherless goat".