abandoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbæn.dənd/
ipa: /əˈbæn.dənd/
Forms: form: more abandoned
form: most abandoned
Etymology: From Middle English abandoned, equivalent to abandon + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Such immunity to offenders offered a safe asylum to the vilest and most abandoned scoundrels.
ref: 1876, Alexander Davidson, A Complete History of Illinois from 1673 to 1884, page 232:
synonyms: word: abandoned
word: arrant
word: bad
word: bad apple
word: bad seed
word: baleful
word: baneful
word: base
word: dark
word: deleterious
word: depraved
word: despicable
word: detrimental
word: devilish
word: diabolical
word: evil
word: flagitious
word: harmful
word: ill-intentioned
word: ill-natured
word: immoral
word: incorrigible
word: iniquitous
word: iniquous
word: injurious
word: knavish
word: malefic
word: maleficent
word: malevolent
word: malicious
word: malign
word: malignant
word: nefarious
word: niddering
word: nidering
word: niding
word: nithing
word: no-good
word: peccaminous
word: pernicious
word: reprehensible
word: reprobate
word: satanic
word: scathful
word: sinful
word: sinister
word: sordid
word: sullen
word: ungodly
word: unholy
word: vicious
word: vile
word: villainous
word: wicked
word: wrong
glosses: Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.
examples: text: abandoned building
text: abandoned property
text: They explored an abandoned factory on the edge of town.
text: […] your abandoned streams […]
ref: 1735, Thomson, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
synonyms: careless
deserted
discarded
forsaken
glosses: No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.
examples: text: Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.
ref: 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 11, in The Moon and Sixpence:
text: What is the same is our need for community. What seemed different was an abandoned enjoyment of life and music, a uniquely Quebec sense of joie de vivre.
ref: 1984 February 4, M. S., “Celles qui aiment: The Lesbians of Montreal”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 14:
synonyms: dissolute
glosses: Free from constraint; uninhibited.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
Synonyms: sense: immoral
word: bad
word: corrupt
word: demoralized
word: depraved
word: graceless
word: hardened
word: impetuous
word: impenitent
word: incorrigible
word: irreclaimable
word: licentious
word: lost
word: obdurate
word: profligate
word: reckless
word: rejected
word: reprobate
word: shameless
word: sinful
word: uninhibited
word: unprincipled
word: unrestrained
word: vicious
word: vile
word: wanton
word: wicked
word: wild . See also Thesaurus:evil
word: abandoned
word: derelict
word: deserted
word: desolate
word: discarded
word: dropped
word: forlorn
word: forsaken
word: high and dry
word: left behind
word: orphaned
Hypernyms: word: neglected
Hyponyms: word: ramshackle
word: uninhabited
word: deteriorated
word: devastated
word: ravaged
word: scarified
word: war-ravaged
word: wasted
word: adrift
word: anchorless
word: castaway
word: lost
Derived terms: abandoned child syndrome
abandoned habits
abandonedly
abandonedness
abandoned property
bando
nonabandoned
phantom abandoned call
self-abandoned
semiabandoned
unabandoned
Related terms: word: cheerless