cancelled adjective3 •not going to happen, because the people who arranged it have decided to stop itThe cancelled show would have drawn some 5,000 fans. •Socially censured in a way expected to be durable rather than transient. Or, otherwise a permanent and irrevocable state of social isolation, esp. from interactive media.On the question of rehabilitation for cancelled celebrities, the nature of the offence is relevant: a bad day is different from a life of abusive crime. •Marked over the stamp, to show that the stamp has been used.Most of the cancelled specimens were somewhat less valuable philatelically.