Word Study
abandoned
CIDE DICTIONARY
abandoned, a.
- Forsaken, deserted. Thomson. [1913 Webster]
- Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain. [1913 Webster]"God gave them over to a reprobate mind." [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Profligate; dissolute; corrupt; vicious; depraved; reprobate; wicked; unprincipled; graceless; vile.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
abandoned, adj.
1 a (of a person) deserted, forsaken (an abandoned child). b (of a building, vehicle, etc.) left empty or unused (an abandoned cottage; an abandoned ship).
2 (of a person or behaviour) unrestrained, profligate.
1 a (of a person) deserted, forsaken (an abandoned child). b (of a building, vehicle, etc.) left empty or unused (an abandoned cottage; an abandoned ship).
2 (of a person or behaviour) unrestrained, profligate.
THESAURUS
abandoned
a bit much, abjured, afire, amok, antiquated, antique, archaic, ardent, available, bellowing, berserk, boundless, burning, carried away, cast-off, castaway, ceded, committed, contaminated, corrupt, corrupted, debased, debauched, decadent, dedicated, defenseless, degenerate, degraded, delirious, demoniac, depraved, derelict, deserted, desolate, devoted, devout, discarded, discontinued, disowned, dispensed with, disposed of, disregarded, dissipated, dissolute, distracted, disused, done with, earnest, ecstatic, egregious, enormous, enraptured, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, faithful, fancy, fast, fatherless, feral, ferocious, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, flaming, forgone, forlorn, forsaken, forsworn, frantic, free, frenzied, friendless, fulminating, furious, gallant, gay, gigantic, gluttonous, go-go, godforsaken, haggard, half-done, hearty, heated, helpless, high, hog-wild, homeless, hot, hot-blooded, howling, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, hysterical, ignored, immoderate, impassioned, in a transport, in earnest, in hysterics, incontinent, incorrigible, indulgent, inordinate, intemperate, intense, intent, intent on, intoxicated, irrepressible, jettisoned, kithless, laid aside, lascivious, lax, lecherous, left, left undone, lewd, licentious, loose, lost to shame, loyal, mad, madding, maniac, marooned, missed, monstrous, morally polluted, motherless, neglected, nonrestrictive, not worth saving, obsolescent, obsolete, old, old-fashioned, omitted, on fire, on the shelf, open, orgasmic, orgiastic, out, out of bounds, out of control, out of hand, out of sight, out of use, out-of-date, outcast, outdated, outmoded, outrageous, outside the gates, outside the pale, outworn, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overlooked, overmuch, overweening, passed by, passed over, passed up, passionate, past use, pensioned off, perfervid, permissive, perverted, pigeonholed, polluted, possessed, profligate, put aside, rabid, raging, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, rakish, rampant, ramping, ranting, raving, ravished, recanted, red-hot, reinless, rejected, released, relinquished, renounced, reprobate, resigned, resolute, retired, retracted, riotous, roaring, rotten, running mad, sacrificed, serious, shunted, sidelined, sidetracked, sincere, slighted, solitary, spirited, steep, steeped in iniquity, stiff, storming, superannuate, superannuated, superseded, surrendered, tainted, tenantless, too much, transported, unasked, unattended to, unbridled, uncared-for, unchaperoned, unchecked, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconscionable, unconsidered, unconstrained, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, uncouth, uncurbed, undone, undue, unfilled, unforced, unfriended, ungoverned, uninhabited, uninhibited, unmanned, unmastered, unmeasured, unmuzzled, unoccupied, unpeopled, unpopulated, unprincipled, unreasonable, unregarded, unreined, unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unruly, unsolicited, unstaffed, unsubdued, unsuppressed, untaken, untenanted, untended, unwatched, vacant, vehement, vice-corrupted, violent, vitiated, waived, wanton, warm, warped, white-hot, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, worn-out, yielded, zealousROGET THESAURUS
abandoned
Exclusion
N exclusion, nonadmission, omission, exception, rejection, repudiation, exile, noninclusion, preclusion, prohibition, separation, segregation, seposition, elimination, expulsion, cofferdam, excluding, exclusive, excluded, unrecounted, not included in, inadmissible, exclusive of, barring, except, with the exception of, save, bating, exclusion, seclusion, exclusion, seclusion, privacy, retirement, reclusion, recess, snugness, delitescence, rustication, rus in urbe, solitude, solitariness, isolation, loneliness, estrangement from the world, voluntary exile, aloofness, cell, hermitage, convent, sanctum sanctorum, depopulation, desertion, desolation, wilderness, howling wilderness, rotten borough, Old Sarum, exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription, cut, cut direct, dead cut, inhospitality, inhospitableness, dissociability, domesticity, Darby and Joan, recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite, anchoret, anchorite, Simon Stylites, troglodyte, Timon of Athens, Santon, solitaire, ruralist, disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes, outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic, wastrel, foundling, wilding, secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent, private, bye, out of the world, out of the way, the world forgetting by the world forgot, snug, domestic, stay-at-home, unsociable, unsocial, dissocial, inhospitable, cynical, inconversable, unclubbable, sauvage, troglodytic, solitary, lonely, lonesome, isolated, single, estranged, unfrequented, uninhabitable, uninhabited, tenantless, abandoned, deserted, deserted in one's utmost need, unfriended, kithless, friendless, homeless, lorn, forlorn, desolate, unvisited, unintroduced, uninvited, unwelcome, under a cloud, left to shift for oneself, derelict, outcast, banished, noli me tangere, among them but not of them, and homeless near a thousand homes I stood, far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, makes a solitude and calls it peace, magna civitas magna solitudo, never less alone than when alone, O sacred solitude! divine retreat!.Vice
N vice, evil-doing, evil courses, wrongdoing, wickedness, viciousness, iniquity, peccability, demerit, sin, Adam, old Adam, offending Adam, immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals, enphagy, dophagy, exophagy, want of principle, want of ballast, obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution, hardness of heart, brutality, corruption, knavery, profligacy, flagrancy, atrocity, cannibalism, lesbianism, Sadism, infirmity, weakness, weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection, error, weak side, foible, failing, failure, crying sin, besetting sin, defect, deficiency, cloven foot, lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den, gusto picaresco, fault, crime, criminality, sinner, brothel, gambling house, joint, opium den, shooting gallery, crack house, vicious, sinful, sinning, wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal, naughty, incorrect, unduteous, undutiful, unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper, dissolute, profligate, scampish, unworthy, worthless, desertless, disgraceful, recreant, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, discreditable, disreputable, Sadistic, base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous, flagrant, flagitious, atrocious, incarnate, accursed, Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish, miscreated, misbegotten, demoralized, corrupt, depraved, evil-minded, evil-disposed, ill-conditioned, malevolent, heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless, abandoned, lost to virtue, unconscionable, sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity, incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for, culpable, reprehensible, unjustifiable, indefensible, inexcusable, inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible, weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect, indiscrete, demoralizing, degrading, wrong, sinfully, without excuse, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, genus est mortis male vivere, mala mens malus animus, nemo repente fuit turpissimus, the trail of the serpent is over them all, to sanction vice and hunt decorum down.Neglect
N neglect, carelessness, trifling, negligence, omission, oversight, laches, default, supineness, inattention, nonchalance, imprudence, recklessness, slovenliness improvidence, noncompletion, inexactness, paralipsis, paralepsis, paraleipsis (in rhetoric), trifler, waiter on Providence, Micawber, neglecting, unmindful, negligent, neglectful, heedless, careless, thoughtless, perfunctory, remiss, feebleness, inconsiderate, uncircumspect, incircumspect, off one's guard, unwary, unwatchful, unguarded, offhand, supine, inattentive, insouciant, imprudent, reckless, slovenly inexact, improvident, neglected, unheeded, uncared-for, unperceived, unseen, unobserved, unnoticed, unnoted, unmarked, unattended to, unthought of, unregarded, unremarked, unmissed, shunted, shelved, unexamined, unstudied, unsearched, unscanned, unweighed, unsifted, unexplored, abandoned, buried in a napkin, hid under a bushel, negligently, hand over head, anyhow, in an unguarded moment, per incuriam, Int, never mind, no matter, let it pass, out of sight, out of mind.For further exploring for "abandoned" in Webster Dictionary Online