homeless

homeless
    adj 1: without nationality or citizenship; "stateless persons"
           [syn: {homeless}, {stateless}]
    2: physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security;
       "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one
       country to another"- James Stern [syn: {dispossessed},
       {homeless}, {roofless}]
    n 1: someone unfortunate without housing; "a homeless was found
         murdered in Central Park" [syn: {homeless}, {homeless
         person}]
    2: poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in;
       "the homeless became a problem in the large cities"
    

Homeless \Home"less\, a. [AS. h[=a]mleas.]
   Destitute of a home. -- {Home"less*ness}, n.
   [1913 Webster]
    

homeless \home"less\, n. pl.
   Those people who have no permanent residence, especially
   those who live outdoors due to poverty; usually used in the
   definite phrase {the homeless}.
    

65 Moby Thesaurus words for "homeless":
      abandoned, alienated, alone, aloof, apart, bankrupt, bums,
      companionless, defenseless, derelict, deserted, desolate,
      destitute, detached, down-and-out, exiled, fatherless, forlorn,
      forsaken, fortuneless, friendless, godforsaken, helpless,
      houseless, in the gutter, in the red, insolvent, insular, isolated,
      kithless, landless, lone, lonely, lonesome, moneyless, motherless,
      out of funds, outcast, penniless, propertyless, removed, rootless,
      separate, separated, single-handed, solitary, solo, stateless,
      unabetted, unaccompanied, unaided, unassisted, unattended,
      unescorted, unestablished, unfriended, unharbored, unhoused,
      unplaced, unseconded, unsettled, unsupported, vagabond, withdrawn,
      without a sou