abandoned

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

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]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:evil

   • 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 No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.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]

   Synonyms: careless, deserted, discarded, forsaken; see also Thesaurus:abandoned

   • 1735, Thomson, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     […] your abandoned streams […]

3. Free from constraint; uninhibited. [Late 17th century]

   Synonym: dissolute

   • 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.

   • 1984 February 4, M. S., “Celles qui aiment: The Lesbians of Montreal”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 14:

     What is the same is our need for community. What seemed different was an abandoned enjoyment of life and music, a uniquely Quebec sense of joie de vivre.

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

Synonyms

• (immoral): bad, corrupt, demoralized, depraved, 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

Derived terms

• abandoned child syndrome
• abandoned habits
• abandonedly
• abandonedness
• abandoned property
• bando
• nonabandoned
• phantom abandoned call
• self-abandoned
• semiabandoned
• unabandoned

 

Translations

wicked, self-abandoned, given to sin

• Bulgarian: разпуснат (bg) m (razpusnat), разпусната (bg) f (razpusnata)
• Chamorro: maabandona, madingo, mayute
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 放蕩 / 放荡 (zh) (fàngdàng)

• Dutch: schaamteloos (nl), verdorven (nl), liederlijk (nl)
• Finnish: paatunut (fi)
• French: dévergondé (fr) m, dévergondée (fr) f
• Icelandic: gjörspilltur
• Manx: jiarg
• Romanian: vicios (ro) m, desfrânat (ro) m or n, imoral (ro) m or n, nerușinat (ro) m or n
• Russian: па́дший (ru) (pádšij), распу́тный (ru) (raspútnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: meallta
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: запуштен m

  Roman: zapušten (sh) m

• Spanish: desenfrenado (es), desinhibido (es)
• Vietnamese: phóng đãng (vi), truỵ lạc (vi), trụy lạc (vi)

no longer maintained, forsaken, deserted

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: مَهْجُورّ m (mahjūrr), مَتْرُوك m (matrūk)

  Egyptian Arabic: متساب m (metsāb), مهجور m (mahgūrr)

• Armenian: լքված (lkʻvac)
• Azerbaijani: baxımsız, nəzarətsiz, tərk edilmiş, atılmış
• Belarusian: закі́нуты m (zakínuty)
• Bulgarian: изоставен (bg) (izostaven)
• Catalan: abandonat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 遺棄的 / 遗弃的, 拋棄的 / 抛弃的

• Czech: opuštěný (cs)
• Dutch: verlaten (nl), in de steek gelaten (nl)
• Estonian: maha jäetud, hüljatud
• Finnish: hylätty (fi)
• French: abandonné (fr)
• Galician: abandonado (gl)
• Georgian: მიტოვებული (miṭovebuli)
• German: verlassen (de), herrenlos (de)
• Greek: εγκαταλελειμμένος (el) (egkataleleimménos)
• Haitian Creole: abandonnen
• Hebrew: הֶפְקֵר (he) (hefkér), עזוב (he) (azuv)
• Hindi: परित्यक्त (hi) m (parityakt)
• Icelandic: yfirgefinn (is)
• Interlingua: abandonate
• Inuktitut: hingitaq
• Irish: fágtha, tréigthe
• Italian: abbandonato (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kabuverdianu: bandonadu, bandonóde
• Khmer: ដែលបោះបង់ចោល (dêlbaŏhbângchaôl)
• Korean: 버려진 (beoryeojin), 고립된 (goripdoen)
• Latin: relictus, derelictus, desertus (la)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Manx: faagit, treigit
• Maori: toreke
• Marathi: त्यक्त (tyakta), परित्यक्त (parityakta)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: løssluppen
• Ottoman Turkish: ویران (viran)
• Polish: opuszczony (pl)
• Portuguese: abandonado (pt)
• Romanian: abandonat (ro) m, părăsit (ro) m or n
• Russian: забро́шенный (ru) (zabróšennyj), поки́нутый (ru) (pokínutyj)
• Sanskrit: हीन (sa) (hīna)
• Scottish Gaelic: trèigte, air fhàgail
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: напуштен m

  Roman: napušten (sh) m

• Spanish: abandonado (es)
• Swedish: övergiven (sv)
• Thai: ร้าง (th) (ráang)
• Turkish: terk edilmiş, metruk (tr)
• Ukrainian: поки́нутий m (pokýnutyj)
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} bị bỏ rơi, ^{(please verify)} bị ruồng bỏ
• Yiddish: הפֿקר (hefker)

free from constraint, uninhibited

• Bulgarian: необуздан (bg) (neobuzdan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不羈 / 不羁 (zh) (bùjī)

• Dutch: ongeremd (nl)
• Finnish: pidäkkeetön, rajaton (fi)
• Icelandic: taumlaus, hóflaus
• Russian: несде́ржанный (ru) m (nesdéržannyj), необу́зданный (ru) m (neobúzdannyj), безу́держный (ru) m (bezúderžnyj)

geology: no longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it

• Dutch: geologisch stabiel

Verb

abandoned

1. simple past and past participle of abandon