abandoned

abandoned

adjective

Definition of ABANDONED

1

left unoccupied or unused <she consciously avoided walking past the abandoned house, with its broken windows and sagging porch>

Synonyms derelict, deserted, desolate, disused, forgotten, forsaken, rejected, vacant, vacated, void

Related Words ignored, neglected, unattended, untended; castaway, cast-off, discarded, jettisoned, junked, refuse, waste; godforsaken, miserable, shabby, wretched; empty, idle

Near Antonyms reclaimed, recovered, redeemed, rescued, retrieved, salvaged, saved; reconditioned, rehabbed, rehabilitated, restored; repeopled

2

showing no signs of being under control <wild, abandoned dancing that shocked the staid chaperones at the debutante ball>

Synonyms abandoned, intemperate, raw, runaway, unbounded, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrolled, unhampered, unhindered, unrestrained

Related Words uncontrollable, ungovernable; barbaric, hog wild, riotous, uninhibited, wild

Near Antonyms moderate, tempered

Antonyms bridled, checked, constrained, controlled, curbed, governed, hampered, hindered, restrained, temperate