abandoned
Definitions & Usage
Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.
No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.
Free from constraint; uninhibited.
(geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
simple past and past participle of abandon
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“Such immunity to offenders offered a safe asylum to the vilest and most abandoned scoundrels.”
— 1876, Alexander Davidson, A Complete History of Illinois from 1673 to 1884, page 232:
“[…] your abandoned streams […]”
— 1735, Thomson, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
“Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.”
— 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 11, in The Moon and Sixpence: