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| Main Entry: | abandoned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | left alone, deserted |
| Synonyms: | alone, deserted, discarded, dissipated, dropped, empty, forgotten, forsaken, godforsaken*, jilted, left, neglected, outcast, rejected, unoccupied, vacant, cast aside, cast away, dumped, eighty-sixed, eliminated, given up, left in the cold, left in the lurch, on the rocks, passed up, pigeon-holed, relinquished, shunned, side-tracked, sidelined, vacated |
| Antonyms: | defended, supported, adopted, cherished, maintained |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | abandoned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | free from moral restraint; uninhibited |
| Synonyms: | corrupt, depraved, dissolute, immoral, incontinent, incorrigible, licentious, profligate, shameless, sinful, uncontrolled, unprincipled, unrestrained, wanton, wicked, wild |
| Antonyms: | chaste, innocent, moral, pure, restrained, virtuous |
| Main Entry: | abandon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | leave behind, relinquish |
| Synonyms: | abdicate, back out, bail out*, bow out*, chicken out*, cop out*, cut loose*, desert, discard, discontinue, ditch*, drop, drop out, duck*, dump*, dust*, leave, opt out, pull out, quit, screw*, stop, surrender, throw over*, vacate, walk out on, withdraw, yield, flake out, fly the coop, give up the ship, kiss goodbye, leg it, let go, run out on, ship out, storm out, take a powder, take a walk, wash hands of |
| Antonyms: | cherish, defend, keep, pursue, retain, support |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | abandon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | leave in troubled state |
| Synonyms: | back out, desert, disown, forsake, jilt, leave, quit, reject, renounce, throw over*, walk out on, leave behind |
| Antonyms: | adopt, assert, favor, uphold |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | beached |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grounded |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, aground, ashore, deserted, high and dry, stranded, wrecked, marooned |
| Antonyms: | at sea |
| Main Entry: | debauched |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violated, corrupted |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, corrupt, debased, defiled, degenerate, degraded, depraved, deteriorated, dissipated, dissolute, fast, immoral, licentious, perverted, profligate, reprobate, vitiate, wanton, wicked, gone bad, gone to the dogs, in the gutter, vitiated |
| Antonyms: | clean, improved, pure, virtuous, cleansed, purified, uncorrupt, unpolluted |
| Main Entry: | depraved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupt, immoral |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, bad, base, debased, debauched, degenerate, degraded, dirty*, dissolute, evil, fast*, filthy*, kinky*, lascivious, lewd, licentious, low, mean, miscreant, nefarious, perverted, profligate, putrid, rotten, shameless, sinful, twisted, unhealthy, unnatural, vicious, vile, villainous, vitiate, wanton, wicked, dirty-minded, flagitous, gone to the dogs, vitiated, warped |
| Antonyms: | good, honorable, just, moral, noble, pure, upright, virtuous, uncorrupt |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dissolute |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lacking restraint, indulgent |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, corrupt, debauched, degenerate, depraved, dissipated, evil, fast*, fast and loose, intemperate, lascivious, lax, lecherous, lewd, libertine, licentious, light, loose*, open, player*, profligate, raffish, rakish, reprobate, slack, swift, unprincipled, unrestrained, vicious, wanton, wayward, wicked, wild, gone bad, high living, in the fast lane, night owl, nighthawk, on the take, sybaritic, unconstrained |
| Antonyms: | chaste, good, moral, pure, resolute, respectful, virtuous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forgotten |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | out of one's mind |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, blanked out, blotted out, blown over, buried, bygone, clean forgot, consigned to oblivion, disremembered, drew a blank, erased, fell between the cracks, gone, lapsed, left behind, left out, lost, obliterated, omitted, past, past recollection, repressed, slipped one's mind, suppressed, unrecalled, unremembered |
| Antonyms: | recalled, recollected, remembered |
| Main Entry: | forlorn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless, inconsolable |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, alone, bereft, blue*, cheerless, cynical, defenseless, depressed, deserted, desolate, despairing, desperate, despondent, destitute, destroyed, disconsolate, dragging*, forgotten, forsaken, friendless, fruitless, futile, godforsaken*, helpless, homeless, lonely, lonesome, lost, miserable, oppressed, pathetic, pessimistic, pitiful, solitary, tragic, unhappy, vain, woebegone, wretched, comfortless, down and out, in the dumps, pitiable, weighed down |
| Notes: | lonely adds to solitary a suggestion of longing for companionship, while lonesome heightens the suggestion of sadness; forlorn and desolate are even more isolated and sad |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, hopeful, joyful, pleased, comforted, consolable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | friendless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without companionship or confidant |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, adrift, alienated, all alone, all by one's self, alone, cut off*, deserted, estranged, forlorn, forsaken, isolated, lonely, lonesome, marooned, ostracized, shunned, solitary, unattached, without ties |
| Antonyms: | attached, befriended, beloved, liked, loved |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | godforsaken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desolate |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, backward, deserted, dismal, distant, empty, forgotten, forlorn, gloomy, isolated, lonely, miserable, neglected, out-of-the-way, remote, secluded, wicked |
| Main Entry: | helpless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | incapable, incompetent; vulnerable |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, debilitated, defenseless, dependent, destitute, disabled, exposed, feeble, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, impotent, inefficient, inexpert, infirm, invalid, over a barrel*, paralyzed, powerless, prostrate, shiftless, unable, unfit, unprotected, weak, basket-case, handcuffed, pinned, tapped, tapped out, up creek without paddle, with hands tied |
| Antonyms: | able, capable, competent, enterprising, independent, resourceful, skilled, strong |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | homeless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | displaced |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, derelict, desolate, destitute, displaced, down-and-out*, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, itinerant, outcast, refugee, unsettled, unwelcome, vagabond, vagrant, wandering, banished, deported, disinherited, dispossessed, estranged, exiled, houseless, uncared-for, unhoused, without a roof |
| Antonyms: | settled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | immoral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evil, degenerate |
| Synonyms: | X-rated*, abandoned, bad, corrupt, debauched, depraved, dishonest, dissipated, dissolute, fast*, graceless, impure, indecent, iniquitous, lewd, licentious, loose*, nefarious, obscene, pornographic, profligate, rakish, reprobate, shameless, sinful, speedy, unclean*, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulous, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong, of easy virtue, saturnalian, unchaste |
| Antonyms: | chaste, good, moral, noble, pure, right, virtuous, uncorrupt |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incorrigible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad, hopeless |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, beastly, hardened, incurable, intractable, inveterate, irreparable, loser, useless, wicked, irredeemable, recidivous, uncorrectable, unreformed |
| Antonyms: | good, manageable, nice, obedient, reformable |
| Main Entry: | isolated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unique; private |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, abnormal, alone, anomalous, apart, backwoods*, confined, deserted, detached, exceptional, far-out, forsaken, hidden, incommunicado*, lonely, lonesome, out-of-the-way*, outlying, random, remote, retired, secluded, segregated, single, solitary, special, stranded, unaccompanied, unrelated, untypical, unusual, withdrawn, off beaten track, screened, sequestered, unfrequented |
| Antonyms: | included, incorporated, public, mingling |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | licentious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral, uncontrolled |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, animal, carnal, corrupt, debauched, depraved, desirous, disorderly, dissolute, fast, fast and loose, fleshly, impure, incontinent, lascivious, lax, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous, loose*, lustful, profligate, promiscuous, reprobate, salacious, scabrous, sensual, swinging, uncontrollable, unprincipled, unruly, wanton, amoral, in the fast lane, lickerish, lubricious, oversexed, relaxed, satyric, unconstrained, uncurbed, unmoral |
| Antonyms: | chaste, good, innocent, moral, controlled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lone |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | by oneself; only |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, alone, deserted, forsaken, isolated, lonely, lonesome, one, particular, secluded, separate, separated, single, singular, sole, solitary, solo, unaccompanied, unique, onliest, stag |
| Antonyms: | along, together, accompanied |
| Main Entry: | perverted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral, evil |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, aberrant, abnormal, corrupt, corrupted, debased, debauched, defiled, depraved, deviant, deviating, distorted, foreign, grotesque, impaired, kinky*, misguided, monstrous, queer, sick, tainted, twisted, unhealthy, unnatural, vicious, vitiate, wicked, abused, contorted, misused, outraged, polluted, vitiated, warped |
| Antonyms: | clean, good, healthy, moral |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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