derelict

Plural: derelicts

Noun

• A person abandoned by society; a discarded, neglected thing.
• a person without a home, job, or property
• a ship abandoned on the high seas
• Property abandoned by its former guardian or owner; (countable) an item of such property.
• Property abandoned by its former guardian or owner; (countable) an item of such property.
• Property abandoned at sea with no hope of recovery and no expectation of being returned to its owner; (countable) an item of such property, especially a ship.
• An abandoned or forsaken person; an outcast, a waif.
• A homeless or jobless person; a vagrant; also, a person who is (perceived as) negligent in their hygiene and personal affairs.
• A person who is negligent in performing a duty.

Adjective Satellite

• worn and broken down by hard use
• forsaken by owner or inhabitants
• failing in what duty requires
  • "derelict (or delinquent) in his duty"
• in deplorable condition

Adj

• Given up by the guardian or owner; abandoned, forsaken.
• Given up by the guardian or owner; abandoned, forsaken.
• Of a ship: abandoned at sea; of a spacecraft: abandoned in outer space.
• Of property: in a poor state due to abandonment or neglect; dilapidated, neglected.
• Adrift, lost.
• Negligent in performing a duty; careless.

Verb

• To abandon or forsake (someone or something).
• To neglect a duty.

Examples

• He left the challenging ’X’ on his rack like a DERELICT, hoping it would disappear.
• There was a derelict ship on the island.

Synonyms

abandoned, abandoned ship, bedraggled, broken-down, creaky, decrepit, delinquent, deserted, dilapidated, flea-bitten, neglectful, ramshackle, remiss, run-down, tatterdemalion, tumble-down, woebegone, Jack out of doors, anchorless, beat, beat up, beaten up, bum, careless, casual, clochard, crumbling, cursory, derelict, dero, desolate, discarded, down-and-out, down-and-outer, draggled, drifter, dropped, epithite, floater, forlorn, forsaken, gadling, heedless, high and dry, hobo, irregardless, irrespective, knight of the road, landleaper, landloper, landlouper, left behind, neglected, negligent, nomad, orphaned, paker, palliard, pike, piker, ranger, reckless, regardless, rogue, rolling stone, rough sleeper, ruinous, rundown, scatterling, seedy, shirker#Noun, skelder, skell, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, stroller, stumblebum, swaggie, swagman, timeworn, toerag, tramp, truant, tumbledown, unfaithful, vagabond, vagrant, waif, wanderer, yagger

Related Words

dereliction, relic, relict, relinquish

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