derelict

1. a. Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands. Source: opted

2. a. Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful. Source: opted

3. n. A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea. Source: opted

4. n. A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use. Source: opted

5. adj. worn and broken down by hard use Source: wordnet

6. adj. forsaken by owner or inhabitants Source: wordnet

7. adj. failing in what duty requires Source: wordnet

8. adj. in deplorable condition Source: wordnet

9. n. a person without a home, job, or property Source: wordnet

10. n. a ship abandoned on the high seas Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

12. j:86/n:14 n. a person without a home, job, or property s. failing in what duty requires Source: ecdict

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