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abandoned

adj · verb · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /əˈbæn.dənd/ without æ-raising
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • /əˈbeə̯n.dənd/ æ-raising
  • /əˈbɛə̯n.dənd/ æ-raising
  • CMU ARPABET: AH0 B AE1 N D AH0 N D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: abandoned, arrant, bad, bad apple, bad seed, baleful, scurrilous, baneful, base, black-hearted, dark, deleterious, demonic, depraved, despicable, detrimental, devilish, diabolical, evil, evil-minded, facinorous, flagitious, harmful, heinous, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, immoral, incorrigible, iniquitous, iniquous, injurious, knavish, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, naughty, nefarious, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, no-good, peccaminous, pernicious, reprehensible, reprobate, satanic, scathful, sinful, sinister, sordid, sullen, ungodly, unholy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • abandoned building
  • abandoned property
  • They explored an abandoned factory on the edge of town.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: careless, deserted, discarded, forsaken

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Free from constraint; uninhibited.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: dissolute

Antonyms: none provided

4

adj

Meaning 4

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

simple past and past participle of abandon

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, participle, past

Examples

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:abandoned.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

adjective satellite

Meaning 6

forsaken by owner or inhabitants

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: derelict, deserted

Antonyms: none provided

7

adjective satellite

Meaning 7

free from constraint- Liam O'Flaherty

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • an abandoned sadness born of grief

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

107 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: разпуснат (razpusnat) — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Chamorro: maabandona — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Chamorro: madingo — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Chamorro: mayute — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Chinese Mandarin: 放蕩 /放荡 (fàngdàng) — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Dutch: schaamteloos — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Dutch: verdorven — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Dutch: liederlijk — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Finnish: paatunut — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • French: dévergondé — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Icelandic: gjörspilltur — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Manx: jiarg — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Romanian: vicios — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Romanian: desfrânat — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Romanian: imoral — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Romanian: nerușinat — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Russian: па́дший (pádšij) — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Russian: распу́тный (raspútnyj) — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Scottish Gaelic: meallta — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Serbo-Croatian: запуштен — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Serbo-Croatian: zapušten — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Spanish: desenfrenado — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Spanish: desinhibido — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Vietnamese: phóng đãng — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Vietnamese: truỵ lạc — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Vietnamese: trụy lạc — wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin
  • Arabic: مَهْجُورّ (mahjūrr) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Arabic: مَتْرُوك (matrūk) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Arabic: متساب (metsāb) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Arabic: مهجور (mahgūrr) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Armenian: լքված (lkʻvac) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Azerbaijani: baxımsız — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Azerbaijani: nəzarətsiz — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Azerbaijani: tərk edilmiş — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Azerbaijani: atılmış — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Belarusian: закі́нуты (zakínuty) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Bulgarian: изоставен (izostaven) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Catalan: abandonat — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Chinese Mandarin: 遺棄的 /遗弃的 — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Chinese Mandarin: 拋棄的 /抛弃的 — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Czech: opuštěný — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Dutch: verlaten — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Dutch: in de steek gelaten — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Estonian: maha jäetud — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Estonian: hüljatud — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Finnish: hylätty — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • French: abandonné — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Galician: abandonado — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Georgian: მიტოვებული (miṭovebuli) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • German: verlassen — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • German: herrenlos — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Greek: εγκαταλελειμμένος (egkataleleimménos) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Haitian Creole: abandonnen — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Hebrew: הֶפְקֵר (hefkér) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Hebrew: עזוב (azuv) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Hindi: परित्यक्त (parityakt) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Icelandic: yfirgefinn — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Interlingua: abandonate — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Inuktitut: hingitaq — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Irish: fágtha — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Irish: tréigthe — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Italian: abbandonato — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Kabuverdianu: bandonadu — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Kabuverdianu: bandonóde — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Khmer: ដែលបោះបង់ចោល (dêlbaŏhbângchaôl) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Korean: 버려진 (beoryeojin) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Korean: 고립된 (goripdoen) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Latin: relictus — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Latin: derelictus — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Latin: desertus — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Manx: faagit — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Manx: treigit — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Māori: toreke — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Marathi: त्यक्त (tyakta) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Marathi: परित्यक्त (parityakta) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Norwegian: løssluppen — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Polish: opuszczony — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Portuguese: abandonado — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Romanian: abandonat — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Romanian: părăsit — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Russian: забро́шенный (zabróšennyj) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Russian: поки́нутый (pokínutyj) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Sanskrit: हीन (hīna) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Scottish Gaelic: trèigte — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Scottish Gaelic: air fhàgail — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Serbo-Croatian: напуштен — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Serbo-Croatian: napušten — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Spanish: abandonado — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Swedish: övergiven — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Thai: ร้าง (ráang) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Turkish: terk edilmiş — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Turkish: metruk — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Ottoman Turkish: ویران (viran) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Ukrainian: поки́нутий (pokýnutyj) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Yiddish: הפֿקר (hefker) — no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted
  • Bulgarian: необуздан (neobuzdan) — free from constraint, uninhibited
  • Chinese Mandarin: 不羈 /不羁 (bùjī) — free from constraint, uninhibited
  • Czech: nevázaný — free from constraint, uninhibited
  • Dutch: ongeremd — free from constraint, uninhibited
  • Finnish: pidäkkeetön — free from constraint, uninhibited
  • Finnish: rajaton — free from constraint, uninhibited
  • Icelandic: taumlaus — free from constraint, uninhibited
  • Icelandic: hóflaus — free from constraint, uninhibited
  • Russian: несде́ржанный (nesdéržannyj) — free from constraint, uninhibited
  • Russian: необу́зданный (neobúzdannyj) — free from constraint, uninhibited
  • Russian: безу́держный (bezúderžnyj) — free from constraint, uninhibited
  • Dutch: geologisch stabiel — geology: no longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it
Real reading context

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