Word Meanings - ABANDONED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Forsaken, deserted. "Your abandoned streams." Thomson. 2. Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain. Syn. -- Profligate; dissolute; corrupt; vicious;

Additional info about word: ABANDONED

1. Forsaken, deserted. "Your abandoned streams." Thomson. 2. Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain. Syn. -- Profligate; dissolute; corrupt; vicious; depraved; reprobate; wicked; unprincipled; graceless; vile. -- Abandoned, Profligate, Reprobate. These adjectives agree in expressing the idea of great personal depravity. Profligate has reference to open and shameless immoralities, either in private life or political conduct; as, a profligate court, a profligate ministry. Abandoned is stronger, and has reference to the searing of conscience and hardening of heart produced by a man's giving himself wholly up to iniquity; as, a man of abandoned character. Reprobate describes the condition of one who has become insensible to reproof, and who is morally abandoned and lost beyond hope of recovery. God gave them over to a reprobate mind. Rom. i. 28.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ABANDONED)

• Desperate
• Wild
• daring
• audacious
• determined
• reckless
• abandoned
• rash
• furious
• frantic
• despairing
• regardless
• mad
• desponding
• hapless
• inextricable
• irremediable
• Devoted
• Attached
• fond
• absorbed
• consecrated
• ardent
• loving
• dedicated
• given
• Dissolute
• Abandoned
• profligate
• loose
• licentious
• wanton
• vicious
• Forlorn
• deserted
• forsaken
• solitary
• destitute
• desolate
• luckless
• helpless
• disconsolate
• lone
• woe-begone
• lonesome
• wretched
• Graceless
• Ungraceful
• scampish
• reprobate
• worthless

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ABANDONED)

• People
• colonize
• plant
• develop
• fertilize
• cultivate
• enrich
• enliven
• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain
• Sanction
• commend
• approve

Related words: (words related to ABANDONED)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• LOVAGE
  An umbelliferous plant , sometimes used in medicine as an aromatic stimulant. (more info) indigenous to Liguria, lovage, from Ligusticus Ligustine, Ligurian,
• LOVING
  1. Affectionate. The fairest and most loving wife in Greece. Tennyson. 2. Expressing love or kindness; as, loving words.
• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• DESOLATE
  1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• CONSECRATE
  Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred. They were assembled in that consecrate place. Bacon.
• HAPLESS
  Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid. Dryden.
• DARREIN
  Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.
• ARDENT
  1. Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever. 2. Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes. Dryden. 3. Warm, applied
• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• DARKNESS
  1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or
• LOVERWISE
  As lovers do. As they sat down here loverwise. W. D. Howells.
• DARING
  Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.
• DEDICATORY
  Constituting or serving as a dedication; complimental. "An epistle dedicatory." Dryden.
• DEVOTIONALLY
  In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• SELF-LOVE
  The love of one's self; desire of personal happiness; tendency to seek one's own benefit or advantage. Shak. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. Pope. Syn. -- Selfishness. -- Self-love, Selfishness. The term self-love is used
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• PANDARISM
  See SWIFT
• DECONSECRATE
  To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. -- De*con`se*cra"tion, n.
• PANDARIZE
  To pander.