abandoned
/əˈband(ə)nd
/adjective
1Having been deserted or left: an abandoned car abandoned pets...
- The next program was about the good dog catchers in NYC - they are a division of the ASPCA - who rescue abused and abandoned pets.
- In the first, a young peasant woman desperately fights to protect an abandoned baby boy she's taken under her wing.
- Anyone who finds an abandoned pet can call the RSPCA.
Synonyms
deserted, forsaken, cast aside/off;
jilted, stranded, rejected
informal dumped, ditched
unused, disused, neglected, idle;
deserted, unoccupied, uninhabited, empty
2Unrestrained; uninhibited: a wild, abandoned dance...
- I remember downing a great deal of vodka and dancing in a rather abandoned fashion.
- Trinbagonians hit the streets at 1am for Jouvert, a small-hours celebration that sees the capital erupt with abandoned sensuality.
- I'd like to propose a toast to unfettered, abandoned appetite.
Synonyms
uninhibited, reckless, unrestrained, unruly, wild, unbridled, impulsive, impetuous;
immoderate, wanton
- pulse radiolysis
- pulse repeater
- pulse-taker
- pulse-taking
- pulse-time-modulated
- pulse time modulation
- pulse tracing
- pulse watch
- pulse wave
- pulse width
- pulse width modulation
- pulse-wise
- pulsific
- pulsimeter
- pulsion
- thereat
- there but for the grace of God (go I)
- thereby
- thereby hangs a tale
- the Reconstruction
- the red planet
- therefor
- therefore
- therefrom
- the Regency