derelict in English dictionary

  • derelict

    Meanings and definitions of "derelict"

    • Abandoned, forsaken; (of ship) abandoned at sea; dilapidated, neglected.
    • Negligent in performing a duty.
    • Property abandoned by its former owner, especially, a ship abandoned at sea.
    • An abandoned or forsaken person; an outcast.
    • A negligent person.
    • adjective
      Abandoned, forsaken; given up by the natural owner or guardian; (of a ship) abandoned at sea, dilapidated, neglected; (of a spacecraft) abandoned in outer space.
    • adjective
      Negligent in performing a duty.
    • adjective
      Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful.
    • noun
      Property abandoned by its former owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.
    • noun
      (dated)
      An abandoned or forsaken person; an outcast.
    • noun
      A homeless and/or jobless person; a person who is (perceived as) negligent in their personal affairs and hygiene. ( This sense is a modern development of the preceding sense.)
    • abandoned
    • negligent
    • abandoned property
    • abandoned ship
    • outcast
    • negligent person
    • A person abandoned by society, esp. a person without a permanent home and means of support.
    • adjective
      failing in what duty requires; "derelict (or delinquent) in his duty"; "neglectful of his duties"; "remiss of you not to pay your bills"
    • adjective
      forsaken by owner or inhabitants; "weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse"
    • adjective
      in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
    • adjective
      worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack"
    • noun
      a person without a home, job, or property
    • noun
      a ship abandoned on the high seas

    Synonyms of "derelict" in English dictionary

    worn, negligent, pauper are the top synonyms of "derelict" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of derelict

    • st. wyższy  stopień wyższy more derelict; st. najwyższy  stopień najwyższy most derelict
    • derelict ( comparative more derelict, superlative most derelict)
    • derelict ( plural  derelicts)
    • derelict (comparative more derelict, superlative most derelict)
    • derelict (plural derelicts)
  • Derelict

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