Synonyms for homeless
ˈhoʊm lɪshome·less

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1. homeless, homeless personnoun

   someone unfortunate without housing

   "a homeless was found murdered in Central Park"

   Synonyms:
   homeless person

   Antonyms:
   settled, fortunate

2. homelessadjective

   poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in

   "the homeless became a problem in the large cities"

   Synonyms:
   homeless person

   Antonyms:
   settled, fortunate

3. homeless, statelessadjective

   without nationality or citizenship

   "stateless persons"

   Synonyms:
   roofless, stateless, dispossessed

   Antonyms:
   fortunate, settled

4. dispossessed, homeless, rooflessadjective

   physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security

   "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern

   Synonyms:
   stateless, roofless, dispossessed

   Antonyms:
   settled, fortunate

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1. List of paraphrases for "homeless":

   homelessness, displaced, sleepers, stray

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1. Elizabeth Novak:

   I just want to tell you what happens when I get to work, i have to clean up the poop and the pee off of my doorstep. I have to clean up the syringes. I have to fight off people that push their way into my shop that are homeless and on drugs because you wont arrest them for drug offenses. I have to apologize to my clients. So I want to know what youre going to do for us, the ones that are unhappy.

2. David Riggleman:

   I think our entire country has seen the fact that we can't manage this situation that we are in, it's not just the homeless. This has overwhelmed our resources everywhere and I think everybody is doing the best they can.

3. Samuel Johns:

   I started ForgetMeNotAK.org, a Facebook group page, to help the homeless reconnect with their families.

4. Joseph McCroy:

   It’s very hard transitioning back to civilian life, once you get back, the first thing you try to do is find a good job. But if you ca n’t find a job, everything else starts to fall apart. My house was foreclosed on, truck repossessed, I got divorced … I was homeless.

5. Governor Andrew Cuomo:

   We're paying $1 billion per year as taxpayers to pay for a shelter system and the homeless say, 'We're afraid to go into it,' it's not right to have a shelter system that is so dirty and unsafe, that people have to stay on the street corner.