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derelict

UK /ˈdɛr.ə.lɪkt/US /ˈdɛɹəˌlɪk(t)/

adjective 5
noun 5
verb 2
forms 5

adjective5

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Given up by the guardian or owner; abandoned, forsaken.
- [T]hese affections, vvhich these exposed or derelict children bear to their Mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion; […] — 1649
Of property: in a poor state due to abandonment or neglect; dilapidated, neglected.
•
Of a ship: abandoned at sea; of a spacecraft: abandoned in outer space.
- There was a derelict ship on the island.
(US) Negligent in performing a duty; careless.
(figurative) Adrift, lost.

noun5

Property abandoned by its former guardian or owner; (countable) an item of such property.
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(old-fashioned) An abandoned or forsaken person; an outcast, a waif.
- A rather pathetic figure, the Lady Frances, a beautiful woman, still in fresh middle age, and yet, by a strange chance, the last derelict of what only twenty years ago was a goodly fleet. — 1911
•
(offensive) A homeless or jobless person; a vagrant; also, a person who is (perceived as) negligent in their hygiene and personal affairs.
- Only she must have men—understand? If they're lazy derelicts and ne'er-do-wells she'll eat 'em up. But she's waiting for real men—British to the bone— […] — 1924
Property abandoned at sea with no hope of recovery and no expectation of being returned to its owner; (countable) an item of such property, especially a ship.
(US) A person who is negligent in performing a duty.

verb2

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(no longer used, rare) To abandon or forsake (someone or something).
- [F]or the public, for the redemption of the whole world, God hath (shall we say, pretermitted?) derelicted, forsaken, abandoned, his own, and only Son. — 1632
(no longer used, rare) To neglect a duty.

forms

derelicted · derelicting · derelicts · more derelict · most derelict

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