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. 1. Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands. The affections which these exposed or derelict children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion. Jer. Taylor. 2. Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful. They easily prevailed, so as to seize upon the vacant, unoccupied, and derelict minds of his [Chatham's] friends; and instantly they turned the vessel wholly out of the course of his policy. Burke. A government which is either unable or unwilling to redress such wrongs is derelict to its highest duties. J. Buchanan. (a) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea. (b) A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use.
12. j:86/n:14 n. a person without a home, job, or property s. failing in what duty requires