abandoned
Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.
Other meanings
No longer maintained by its former owners, residents or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.
Free from constraint; uninhibited.
Synonyms
- deserted
Related words
- phantom abandoned call
- abandonedly
- nonabandoned
- semiabandoned
- unabandoned
- abandoned child syndrome
- abandoned habits
- abandoned property
- abandonedness
- bando
- self-abandoned
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle English "abandoned".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “abandoned” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.