disowned
Cut from family
Disowned is the past tense of disown, meaning to reject or sever ties with someone or something previously acknowledged as one's own.
Parents who disown children cut them off emotionally and often financially: His father disowned him when he dropped out of law school.
One can also disown beliefs, actions, or statements: She disowned her earlier remarks.
Excluded from inheritance
- estrangedSeparated by emotional distance
- outcastShunned, rejected person
- orphanedDeprived of parents
- disavowedFormally denied association
renounced · repudiated · cut-off · unacknowledged · black sheep · written out · cast out · turned away
Formally denied responsibility
- disavowedFormally denied association
- repudiatedFormally rejected or denied
- renouncedFormally rejected or abandoned
- deniedRefused or disavowed
retracted · recanted · abjured · rejected · refuted · contradicted · walked back · relinquished
Excluded from a group
- shunnedPersistently avoided socially
- blackballedRejected by anonymous vote
- excommunicatedOfficially cut from church
- expelledOfficially removed or banished
exiled · banished · persona non grata · pariah · alienated · isolated · outcasted · snubbed
disinherited
Excluded from inheritance
disavowed · renounced · repudiated · cut-off · unacknowledged · black sheep · written out · cast out · turned away · unwanted
disclaimed
Formally denied responsibility
- disavowedFormally denied association
- repudiatedFormally rejected or denied
- renouncedFormally rejected or abandoned
denied · retracted · recanted · abjured · rejected · refuted · contradicted · walked back · relinquished · disassociated
ostracized
Excluded from a group
- shunnedPersistently avoided socially
- blackballedRejected by anonymous vote
- excommunicatedOfficially cut from church
expelled · exiled · banished · persona non grata · pariah · alienated · isolated · outcasted · snubbed · rebuffed
- outcastsoutcast, pariah, pariahs, outcasts, outlaws
- rejection wordsrejected, rebuffed, spurned, snubbed, refused
- abandonmentabandon, abandoned, forsake, desert, leave
- oustedfired, axed, sacked, canned, terminated
- inheritanceinheritance, inheritances, heir, heirs, heiress
- nullifiedvoided, annulled, invalidated, nullified, rescinded