homeless

adj

1. (not-comparable)Lacking a permanent place of residence.

   “Whenever I pass the park, I see the homeless people sleeping on the benches.”

   “Xinyang special region received 1,200-1,400 mm of rain between June and August 1956: 280,000 homes were destroyed and 3.2 million peasants (out of a total of almost 6 million) were left homeless. In the most affected county in the special region and the province, Huaibin, 60 percent of the total surface area was covered by floods and 230,000 out of 440,000 inhabitants left homeless; grain production fell by 66 percent in 1956 and the authorities had to send large amounts of relief.”

   “You know what you never see? A really good-looking homeless couple.”

   “The massive arches of the retaining walls have become tent city for the many homeless people in the area.”

2. (not-comparable)Containing no place that might be called home.

   “But I should turn mine ears and hear The moanings of the homeless sea, ⁠The sound of streams that swift or slow ⁠Draw down Æonian hills, and sow The dust of continents to be; […]”

noun

1. (nonstandard, offensive, possibly)A person who is homeless.

   “Oszlár Kálmán András, Yoga in the Bed: Tantric Continence & Spiritual Intimacy […] the jobseekers and homelesses or even the future prime minister, all of us are involved in formation of the new world.”

   “[…] homelesses' due process rights and infringed upon the homelesses' fundamental right to travel […]”