English Online Dictionary. What means abandoned? What does abandoned mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English abandoned, equivalent to abandon + -ed.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈbæn.dn̩d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈbæn.dn̩d/
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]
- No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted. [Late 15th century]
- Free from constraint; uninhibited. [Late 17th century]
- (geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
Synonyms
- (immoral): bad, corrupt, demoralized, depraved, dissolute, 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
- (forsaken): careless, deserted, discarded, forsaken
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Verb
abandoned
- simple past and past participle of abandon