What's the difference between parentless and unparented?
Parentless
Definition:
(a.) Deprived of parents.
Example Sentences:
(1) Klebsiella pneumoniae Mir M7 is a spontaneous parentless morphology mutant which grows as cocci at pH 7 and as rods at pH 5.8.
(2) She also took with us a four-year-old boy who was parentless and she spent months searching for his relatives, who she did finally track down.
(3) We would, then, have to fend for ourselves, and I imagined a parentless pack of us unwanted mongrels, hunting for food in the nearby woods.
(4) Crook said that the separation of 17,000 children from their mothers was causing long-term emotional, social, material and psychological damage with little or no dedicated support: "If a single mother is sent to prison she will, at least temporarily, lose her children and children become effectively parentless," she said.