Thesaurus: derelict

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1. a. Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands.
2. a. Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful.
3. n. A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.
4. n. A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use.
5. adj. worn and broken down by hard use
6. adj. forsaken by owner or inhabitants
7. adj. failing in what duty requires
8. adj. in deplorable condition
9. n. a person without a home, job, or property
10. n. a ship abandoned on the high seas
11. j:86/n:14 n. a person without a home, job, or property s. failing in what duty requires