Entry Word: abandoned

Function: adjective

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

Synonyms derelict, deserted, disused, forgotten, forsaken, rejected, vacated

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

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