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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

forsaken, jilt, stranded, or cast off to the side;

e.g. She left him abandoned and alone in the forest.

(adjective)

reckless and unrestrained;

e.g. They performed a wild, abandoned dance in front of the campfire.

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Similar Words

Aborted

Adrift

Cast-off

Derelict

Desolate

Detached

Discontinued

Disused

Dropped

Intemperate

Left

Quit

Rampant

Ramshackle

Rattletrap

Raw

Rejected

Rickety

Runaway

Stranded

Unarmed

Unattended

Unbounded

Unbridled

Unchecked

Uncontrolled

Unfilled

Unfurnished

Unhampered

Unhindered

Unlinked

Unrestrained

Vacant

Void

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Opposite Words

Accepted

Acquired

Adopted

Alleged

Assumed

Avowed

Beloved

Borne

Continued

Controlled

Cultivated

Darling

Developed

Engaged

Favored

Favorite

Finished

Fond

Justified

Minded

Moderate

Onto

Pet

Polished

Possessed

Precious

Professed

Pronounced

Purported

Reserved

Restrained

Saw

Special

Sweet

Temperate

Tempered

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Related Words

Alone

At

Barbaric

Bare

Beat-up

Blank

Bombed-out

Bye

Cast-off

Castaway

Clean

Closed

Desolate

Devoid

Dilapidated

Discontinued

Dog-eared

Down-at-the-heels

Dugout

Dumpy

Eighty

Empty

Expired

Exposed

Finished

Forlorn

Godforsaken

Grungy

Helpless

Idle

Interrupted

Left

Lone

Lonely

Lonesome

Lost

Mangy

Mean

Miserable

Moth-eaten

Neglected

Ratty

Refuse

Rejected

Resigned

Retired

Riotous

Rundown

Scrubby

Scruffy

Seedy

Shabby

Shed

Single

Sleazy

Solitary

Solo

Stark

Starkly

Susceptible

Tatterdemalion

The

Threadbare

Timeworn

Tumbledown

Unaccompanied

Unattended

Uncontrollable

Undefended

Ungovernable

Unguarded

Uninhibited

Unprotected

Unresistant

Unsaid

Vacant

Vacuous

Void

Vulnerable

Waste

Wild

Withdrawn

Wretched

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