abandoned
IPA: ʌbˈændʌnd
adjective
- Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.
- No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.
- Free from constraint; uninhibited.
- (geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
Examples of "abandoned" in Sentences
- We have what we call the abandoned swimming pools.
- She explained the word abandoned had been removed from the announcement.
- Neither was he totally hard and callous to impressions of religion, what we call abandoned; for he absolutely denied to curse
- And so what happens to this group that I call the abandoned, is that they get shoved around and increasingly out into the inner suburbs and end up almost out of sight, out of mind.
- As an atheist, I cannot speak to what he describes as his abandoned wife's ultimate destination, but I can tell how Wesley Smith consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture—whom I often consult on these bitterly controversial cases because of his carefully researched books and articles—describes death by dehydration.