alienated from

Definitions

To feel isolated, estranged, or emotionally detached from a person, group, or society.

To be caused to feel that one does not belong or is not accepted by a particular environment or community.

Examples

The teenager felt increasingly alienated from his peers because of his unconventional interests.

After years of working abroad, he felt completely alienated from the culture of his home country.

The harsh new policies left many employees feeling alienated from the company's core mission.

Synonyms

estranged from distanced from divorced from isolated from detached from severed from alien to

Antonyms

connected to integrated with reconciled with united with aligned with close to attached to