Parentless vs Motherless - What's the difference?
parentless | motherless |
Having no (living) parent.
* 1973 , Michael Gordon, The American Family in Social-Historical Perspective
* 2004 , Michael Kay, XSLT 2.0 Programmer's Reference
(computing) Having no parent in a data structure.
* 2012 , Michael Lawrence, ?John Verzani, Programming Graphical User Interfaces in R (page 19)
Without a living mother.
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
(-)- Firstly, then, who were these parentless children who seem to have been present in a sizeable proportion of households...
- Two consequences of parentless elements complicate the rules.
- The top-level window is parentless and forms the root of the hierarchy.