abandoned

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   forsaken by owner or inhabitants

   weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse

2. 2
   adj

   free from constraint

   an abandoned sadness born of grief- Liam O'Flaherty

3. 3
   adj

   Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.

   Such immunity to offenders offered a safe asylum to the vilest and most abandoned scoundrels.

4. 4
   adj

   No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.

   abandoned building

5. 5
   adj

   Free from constraint; uninhibited.

   Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.

6. 6
   adj

   No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.

7. 7
   verb

   simple past and past participle of abandon

Etymology

From Middle English abandoned, equivalent to abandon + -ed.