Vocabulary
Bereft
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
deprived of or lacking (something).
Urdu meaning
شکست خوردہ، محروم کیا ہوا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Because power not purpose drives such politics it is bereft of ideas or any vision for the future.
- Bereft of a popular mandate, it survives on the coercive capacity to withstand countervailing forces.
- But there is reason to be temperate, in fact many reasons, the most obvious being that a war should never be celebrated, for even victory comes at the cost of lives lost, and families left bereft.
- Jawaharlal Nehru, alongside Sukarno, was a dominant figure at Bandung, but Zhou Enlai stole the show on China`s behalf with his conciliatory attitude, bereft of ideological fervour.
- Already successive public opinion polls show a nation bereft of hope in the future.
Synonyms
deprived of, robbed of, stripped of, denuded of, cut off from, parted from, devoid of,
Antonyms
joyful, loved, filled, flush, fraught, full
Curator example
“her room was stark and bereft of colour”
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