- indifferent or hostile: A year after the floods, the failure of the promised rehabilitation package has fed an already alienated populace's sense of hurt and anger towards the government.
- withdrawn or isolated from the objective world: Albert Camus's novel The Stranger is the story of an alienated, unfeeling man who kills someone for no reason and dies without remorse.
- turned away from its original purpose or course; transferred or diverted: The investment firm, which misappropriated millions of dollars committed to it, was required to restore the alienated funds to the plaintiff.
- (of property, title, rights, etc.) transferred or conveyed to another: Much reservation territory is now owned and controlled by non-Indigenous people, depriving Indigenous nations of billions of dollars in potential income from these alienated lands.
- the simple past tense and past participle of alienate.