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Definition of Abandoned
1. Adjective. Forsaken by owner or inhabitants. "Weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse"
2. Adjective. Free from constraint. "An abandoned sadness born of grief"
Definition of Abandoned
1. a. Forsaken, deserted.
Definition of Abandoned
1. Verb. (past of abandon) ¹
2. Adjective. No longer maintained by its former owners, residents(,) or caretakers; forsaken, deserted. ¹
3. Adjective. Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an ''abandoned'' villain. ¹
4. Adjective. Free from contraint. ¹
5. Adjective. (context: geology) No longer affected by the geologic process that created it. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Abandoned
1. abandon [v] - See also: abandon
Medical Definition of Abandoned
1. 1. Forsaken, deserted. "Your abandoned streams." 2. Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked; as, an abandoned villain. Synonym: Profligate, dissolute, corrupt, vicious, depraved, reprobate, wicked, unprincipled, graceless, vile. Abandoned, 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. " God gave them over to a reprobate mind." (Rom. I. 28) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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