cancelled
verbadjectivecommon in dialogue
- United States
No longer planned or scheduled.
verb
- 1
Also a form of cancelsimple past and past participle of cancel
The game was cancelled because of snow on the field.
adjective
- 1
No longer planned or scheduled.
The cancelled show would have drawn some 5,000 fans.
- 2
Marked over the stamp, to show that the stamp has been used.
Most of the cancelled specimens were somewhat less valuable philatelically.
- 3
Socially censured in a way expected to be durable rather than transient. Or, otherwise a permanent and irrevocable state of social isolation, esp. from interactive media.
On the question of rehabilitation for cancelled celebrities, the nature of the offence is relevant: a bad day is different from a life of abusive crime.