homeless
/ˈhəʊmlɪs
/adjective
(Of a person) without a home, and therefore typically living on the streets: the plight of young homeless people (as plural noun the homeless) charities for the homeless...
- Throughout the area, we will seek to bring homeless people off the streets and into our centres.
- How many times have you been asked in the street for some money from a seemingly homeless person or a beggar?
- A homeless woman is back on the streets again after being evicted from a telephone box.
Synonyms
without a roof over one's head, on the streets, vagrant, sleeping rough, living rough;
destitute, down and out, derelict, itinerant
British informal dossing
formal of no fixed abode
homeless people, vagrants, down-and-outs, tramps, beggars, vagabonds, itinerants, transients, migrants, derelicts, drifters, beachcombers;
North American hobos;
Australian bagmen, knockabouts, overlanders, sundowners, whalers;
New Zealand streeties
informal bag ladies
British informal dossers
North American informal bums, bindlestiffs
Australian/New Zealand informal derros
South African informal outies
formal people of no fixed abode