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Parentless vs Motherless - What's the difference?

parentless | motherless |

As adjectives the difference between parentless and motherless

is that parentless is having no (living) parent while motherless is without a living mother.

parentless

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Having no (living) parent.
  • * 1973 , Michael Gordon, The American Family in Social-Historical Perspective
    • Firstly, then, who were these parentless children who seem to have been present in a sizeable proportion of households...
  • * 2004 , Michael Kay, XSLT 2.0 Programmer's Reference
    • Two consequences of parentless elements complicate the rules.
  • (computing) Having no parent in a data structure.
  • * 2012 , Michael Lawrence, ?John Verzani, Programming Graphical User Interfaces in R (page 19)
    • The top-level window is parentless and forms the root of the hierarchy.

    motherless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without a living mother.

    • See also

    * fatherless * half orphan * maternal death * orphan * parentless