abandoned
adjEtymology
From Middle English abandoned, equivalent to abandon + -ed.
- inherited from abandoned
Definitions
Having given oneself up to vice
Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.
- Such immunity to offenders offered a safe asylum to the vilest and most abandoned scoundrels.
No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers
No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.
- abandoned building
- abandoned property
- They explored an abandoned factory on the edge of town.
Free from constraint
Free from constraint; uninhibited.
- Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.
- 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.
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No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
simple past and past participle of abandon
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:abandoned.
The neighborhood
- synonymcorrupt
- synonymdemoralized
- synonymdepraved
- synonymgraceless
- synonymhardened
- synonymimpetuous
- synonymimpenitent
- synonymincorrigible
- synonymirreclaimable
- synonymlicentious
- synonymlost
- synonymobdurate
- antonymmaintained
- antonymowned
- antonympossessed
- antonymunabandoned
- antonymunforsaken
- neighborcheerless
- neighborneglected
- neighborramshackle
- neighboruninhabited
- neighbordeteriorated
- neighbordevastated
- neighborravaged
- neighborscarified
- neighborwar-ravaged
- neighborwasted
- neighboradrift
- neighboranchorless
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at abandoned. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at abandoned. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at abandoned
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA