Fatherless

Origin

From father + -less

Full definition of fatherless

Adjective

1. Without a living father.
• 2012, June 17, Nathan Rabin, TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992), “Homer’s Triple Bypass” has the potential to be the most depressing episode in the history of The Simpsons, if not television as whole. It is, after all, about a 36-year-old husband and father staring down death and the prospect of leaving his wife a young widow and his small children fatherless.

Derived terms

• fatherlessness