abandoned

Meanings

Verb

• forsake, leave behind
  • "We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot"
• give up with the intent of never claiming again
• leave behind empty; move out of
• stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims
  • "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"
• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
• simple past and past participle of abandon

Adjective Satellite

• forsaken by owner or inhabitants
  • "weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse"
• free from constraint; - Liam O'Flaherty
  • "an abandoned sadness born of grief"

Adj

• Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.
• No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.
• Free from constraint; uninhibited.
• No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.

Synonyms

abandon, abandoned, arrant, bad, bad apple, bad seed, baleful, baneful, base, careless, corrupt, dark, deleterious, demoralized, depraved, derelict, desert, deserted, desolate, despicable, detrimental, devilish, diabolical, discarded, dissolute, dropped, empty, evil, flagitious, forlorn, forsake, forsaken, give up, graceless, hardened, harmful, high and dry, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, immoral, impenitent, impetuous, incorrigible, iniquitous, iniquous, injurious, irreclaimable, knavish, left behind, licentious, lost, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, nefarious, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, no-good, obdurate, orphaned, peccaminous, pernicious, profligate, reckless, rejected, reprehensible, reprobate, satanic, scathful, shameless, sinful, sinister, sordid, sullen, ungodly, unholy, uninhibited, unprincipled, unrestrained, vacate, vicious, vile, villainous, wanton, wicked, wild . See also Thesaurus:evil, wrong

Antonyms

maintained, owned, possessed, unabandoned, unforsaken

Related Words

cheerless