abandoned
adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue
- United States//əˈbæn.dənd//
- //əˈbeə̯n.dənd//
- //əˈbɛə̯n.dənd//
Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.
adjective
- 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.
- 2
No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.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.
[…] your abandoned streams […]
- 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.
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.
- 4
No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
Etymology
From Middle English abandoned, equivalent to abandon + -ed.
verb
- 1
Also a form of abandonsimple past and past participle of abandon
For quotations using this term, see Citations:abandoned.
Forms
- comparative
- more abandoned
- superlative
- most abandoned
abandoned · Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.
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