English

Etymology

Derivative of abandon

Adjective

1. Forsaken, deserted.

   Quotations

   • Your abandoned streams. - Thomson

2. Self-abandoned , or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain.

Synonyms

• Profligate; dissolute; corrupt; vicious ; depraved ; reprobate ; wicked; unprincipled ; graceless; vile.
• 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 .

Quotations

• God gave them over to a reprobate mind. - Romans 1:28

Translations

• Catalan: abandonat
• Dutch: verlaten
• Ekspreso: abandoned
• Estonian: maha jäetud , hüljatud
• Finnish: hylätty
• French: abandonné
• German: verlassen
• Interlingua: abandonate
• Italian: abbandonato
• Norwegian: løssluppen
• Portuguese: abandonado
• Spanish: abandonado

Ekspreso

noun

1. abandoned