Fatherless

Fa′ther-less

,

Adj.

1.

Destitute of a living father;

as, a

fatherless

child

.

2.

Without a known author.

Beau. & Fl.

, a.

1.

Destitute of a living father; as a fatherless child.

3.

Without a known author.

fatherless ‎(not comparable)

Without a living father.
- 2012 June 17, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
  “Homer’s Triple Bypass” has the potential to be the most depressing episode in the history of The Simpsons, if not television as whole. It is, after all, about a 36-year-old husband and father staring down death and the prospect of leaving his wife a young widow and his small children fatherless.

without a living father