Waif Synonyms

wāf
A homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. orphan
  2. stray
  3. ragamuffin
  4. homeless child
  5. estray
  6. foundling
  7. homeless
  8. street-child
  9. vagrant
  10. wanderer
  11. wastrel

Words Related to Waif

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. waft
  2. scamp
  3. half-starved
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Waif Sentence Examples

  • A waif of a girl sat beside him.

  • The 24-year old supermodel chronicled her battle with anorexia and exercise as she was struggling to survive as a waif thin supermodel in her memoir, "Hungry."

  • While at New York he wrote a play, The Ocean Waif, or Channel Outlaw, which was acted, and is forgotten.

  • The Victorian moral reformer could look with sympathy upon the poverty of the poor waif who stole a loaf of bread.

  • It sounds like some English gothic—a naive waif married off to tyrannical older man who holds her hostage in a golden cage and beats her into submission!

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