abandoned

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈbæn.dənd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈbæn.dənd/

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abandoned (comparative more abandoned, superlative most abandoned)

1. Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked. [First attested from 1350 to 1470]^[1]
   • 1876, Alexander Davidson, A Complete History of Illinois from 1673 to 1884, page 232:

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

2. No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted. [Late 15th century]^[1]
   • 1735, Thomson, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     […] your abandoned streams […]

3. Free from constraint; uninhibited. [Late 17th century]^[1]
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 11, in The Moon and Sixpence:

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

4. (geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.

• (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

abandoned

1. simple past and past participle of abandon