abandoned
English
Etymology
From Middle English abandoned, equivalent to abandon + -ed.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈbæn.dənd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈbæn.dənd/
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Adjective
abandoned (comparative more abandoned, superlative most abandoned)
- Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked. [First attested from 1350 to 1470][1]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:evil
- 1876, Alexander Davidson, A Complete History of Illinois from 1673 to 1884, page 232:
- Such immunity to offenders offered a safe asylum to the vilest and most abandoned scoundrels.
- No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted. [Late 15th century][1]
- Synonyms: careless, deserted, discarded, forsaken; see also Thesaurus:abandoned
- 1735, Thomson, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- […] your abandoned streams […]
- Free from constraint; uninhibited. [Late 17th century][1]
- Synonym: dissolute
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 11, in The Moon and Sixpence:
- Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.
- 1984 February 4, M. S., “Celles qui aiment: The Lesbians of Montreal”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 14:
- 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.
- (geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
Synonyms
- (immoral): 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
Derived terms
Translations
wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
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no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
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free from constraint, uninhibited
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geology: no longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it
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Verb
abandoned
- simple past and past participle of abandon
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abandoned”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.