forsaken, left behind, deserted; rejected, given up; unrestrained, uninhibited
forsake, leave behind, desert; reject, renounce, give up
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Abandoned Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
Abandoned Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(imp. & p. p.)
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(a.)
Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain.
Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain.
(a.)
Forsaken, deserted.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutForsaken, deserted.
abandoned
\a*ban"doned\ (&adot;*băn"dŭnd), a.
1. forsaken, deserted. "your abandoned streams."
2. self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked; as, an abandoned villain.
similar words(1)
abandoned ship
banished, kept away from.
1. No longer inhabited eg. an abandoned factory
2.Left desolate eg. an abandoned child
2.Left desolate eg. an abandoned child
Adjective
1. no longer inhabited; "weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse"
(similar) uninhabited
2. left desolate or empty; "an abandoned child"; "their deserted wives and children"; "an abandoned shack"; "deserted villages"
(synonym) deserted
(similar) forsaken
3. free from constraint; "an abandoned sadness born of grief"- Liam O'Flaherty
(similar) uninhibited
Noun
1. the trait of lacking restraint or control; freedom from inhibition or worry; "she danced with abandon"
(synonym) wantonness, unconstraint
(hypernym) unrestraint
2. a feeling of extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger"
(synonym) wildness
(hypernym) passion, passionateness
Verb
1. forsake, leave behind; "We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot"
(hypernym) discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away
(hyponym) chuck, ditch
(derivation) abandonment
2. stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas, claims, etc.; "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have to give up some calims in these negociations"
(synonym) give up
(verb-group) collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
(derivation) abandonment, forsaking, desertion
3. give up with the intent of never claiming again; "Abandon your life to God"; "She gave up her children to her ex-husband when she moved to Tahiti"; "We gave the drowning victim up for dead"
(synonym) give up
(hyponym) foreswear, renounce, quit, relinquish
(derivation) abandonment, forsaking, desertion
4. leave behind empty; move out of; "You must vacate your office by tonight"
(synonym) vacate, empty
(hypernym) leave, go forth, go away
5. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"
(synonym) forsake, desolate, desert
(hypernym) leave
(hyponym) expose
(derivation) desertion, abandonment, defection
Abandoned Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Abandon, abandoned, or abandonment may refer to:
- Abandonment, a legal term regarding property
- Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property, legal status of property after abandonment and rediscovery
- Child abandonment, the extralegal abandonment of children
- Abandonment (existentialism), the existentialist idea that humanity is abandoned in existence and must find its own meaning
- Mate abandonment, in animal behavior, where one parent deserts the other
- Abandoned footwear
- Abandoned pets
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