abandoned
adjUS, UK /əˈbæn.dənd/ · /əˈbeə̯n.dənd/
Etymology From Middle English abandoned, equivalent to abandon + -ed.
1
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.1876, Alexander Davidson, A Complete History of Illinois from 1673 to 1884, page 232:
2
No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.
- abandoned building
- abandoned property
2 more examples
- They explored an abandoned factory on the edge of town.
- […] your abandoned streams […]1735, Thomson, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
3
Free from constraint; uninhibited.
- Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.1919, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 11, in The Moon and Sixpence:
- 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.1984 February 4, M. S., “Celles qui aiment: The Lesbians of Montreal”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 14:
- Synonyms
39 terms
bad, corrupt, demoralized, depraved, graceless, hardened, impetuous, impenitent, incorrigible, irreclaimable, licentious, lost, obdurate, profligate, reckless, rejected, reprobate, shameless, sinful, uninhibited, unprincipled, unrestrained, vicious, vile, wanton, wicked, wild . See also Thesaurus:evil, abandoned, derelict, desert, deserted, desolate, discarded, dropped, forlorn, forsaken, high and dry, left behind, orphaned- Antonyms
- maintained, owned, possessed, unabandoned, unforsaken
- Derived terms
- abandoned child syndrome, abandoned habits, abandonedly, abandonedness, abandoned property, bando, nonabandoned, phantom abandoned call, self-abandoned, semiabandoned, unabandoned
- Related terms
- cheerless
- Hypernyms
- neglected
- Hyponyms
- ramshackle, uninhabited, deteriorated, devastated, ravaged, scarified, war-ravaged, wasted, adrift, anchorless, castaway, lost