heirless
Lacking any inheritors
Heirless means having no heir—no one to inherit property, title, or legacy.
The word typically describes someone who dies without children or designated successors: The heirless duke's estate passed to the crown.
It can also apply to things that will end with their current holder: an heirless dynasty, an heirless fortune.
Lacking any offspring
- issuelessHaving no descendants
- descendantPerson from earlier generations
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
progeny · ancestry · lineage · barren · infertile · sterile · sonless · daughterless
Having made no will
- estateProperty and grounds
- probateWill validation proceedings
- successionFollowing in order
- bequestGift left by will
legacy · testate · beneficiary · executor · escheat · decedent · devisee · trustee
Complete separation from others
- solitudeState of being alone
- abandonmentAct of leaving permanently
- desolationState of complete emptiness
- emptinessAbsence of substance
forlorn · bereft · seclusion · alienation · lonesomeness · estrangement · neglect · solitary
Act of ending something
- cessationA full stopping
- demiseCessation of existence
- expirationEnd of validity
- dissolutionBreaking up completely
end · conclusion · discontinuation · last · final · ultimate · oblivion · vanishing
childless
Lacking any offspring
- issuelessHaving no descendants
- descendantPerson from earlier generations
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
dynasty · progeny · ancestry · lineage · barren · infertile · sterile · sonless · daughterless · unmarried
intestate
Having made no will
- estateProperty and grounds
- probateWill validation proceedings
- successionFollowing in order
bequest · legacy · testate · beneficiary · executor · escheat · decedent · devisee · trustee · will
isolation
Complete separation from others
- solitudeState of being alone
- abandonmentAct of leaving permanently
- desolationState of complete emptiness
emptiness · forlorn · bereft · seclusion · alienation · lonesomeness · estrangement · neglect · solitary · friendless
termination
Act of ending something
- cessationA full stopping
- demiseCessation of existence
- expirationEnd of validity
dissolution · end · conclusion · discontinuation · last · final · ultimate · oblivion · vanishing · disappearance
heirlessheir-apparent
Indefeasible future inheritor
fertile · prolific · inherited · bequeathed · fecund
heirlessdynastic
Of successive rulers
continuing · heir-apparent · founded · establishing · perpetuating
heritage, heir, inherit, inheritance, inherited, heirloom, heiress, inheritor, disinherit