Meaning & use
alienated
Feeling isolated, estranged, or disconnected from other people, a group, or one's own surroundings.
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Moving to a new country left him feeling alienated from friends he had known his whole life.
Many students reported feeling alienated by a curriculum that ignored their own communities.
A note on using this word
Alienated often takes from, as in alienated from society, and appears frequently in psychology and social criticism.
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