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derelict (n.)
1.a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
2.a ship abandoned on the high seas
3.a person without a home, job, or property
derelict (adj.)
1.failing in what duty requires"derelict (or delinquent) in his duty" "neglectful of his duties" "remiss of you not to pay your bills"
2.deserted or abandoned as by an owner"a derelict ship"
3.in deplorable condition"a street of bedraggled tenements" "a broken-down fence" "a ramshackle old pier" "a tumble-down shack"
4.forsaken by owner or inhabitants "weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse"
5.worn and broken down by hard use"a creaky shack" "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape" "a flea-bitten sofa" "a run-down neighborhood" "a woebegone old shack"
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Merriam Webster
DerelictDer"e*lict (?), a. [L. derelictus, p. p. of derelinquere to forsake wholly, to abandon; de- + relinquere to leave. See Relinquish.]
1. Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands.
The affections which these exposed or derelict children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion. Jer. Taylor.
2. Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful.
They easily prevailed, so as to seize upon the vacant, unoccupied, and derelict minds of his [Chatham's] friends; and instantly they turned the vessel wholly out of the course of his policy. Burke.
A government which is either unable or unwilling to redress such wrongs is derelict to its highest duties. J. Buchanan.
DerelictDer"e*lict, n. (Law) (a) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea. (b) A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use.
⇨ definición de derelict (Wikipedia)
derelict (adj.)
abandoned, bedraggled, broken-down, creaky, crumbling, decrepit, delinquent, deserted, dilapidated, flea-bitten, forsaken, neglected, neglectful, ramshackle, remiss, rickety, run-down, shaky, tatterdemalion, tumbledown, tumble-down, unsteady, woebegone
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derelict (n.)
↘ cast, drift, go astray, kick about, kick around, ramble, range, roam, roam about, roam around, roll, rove, stray, stray off, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander, wander about, wander around, wander away
derelict (adj.)
derelict (adj.)
negligent[Similaire]
derelict (adj.)
(disregard; omission; imprudence; recklessness; temerity; negligence; carelessness; neglect; nonperformance)[termes liés]
uninhabited[Similaire]
derelict (adj.)
derelict (n.)
wastrel; mendicant; beggar; panhandler[Classe]
pedestrian; walker; footer[Classe]
have-not, poor person, poor woman, poor wretch - bird of passage, roamer, rover, wanderer[Hyper.]
cast, drift, go astray, kick about, kick around, ramble, range, roam, roam about, roam around, roll, rove, stray, stray off, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander, wander about, wander around, wander away - aimless, drifting, errant, floating, roaming, roving, vagabond, vagrant, wandering[Dérivé]
derelict (n.)
ship, vessel[Hyper.]
abandoned, derelict, deserted[Dérivé]
derelict (n.)
pauper[Hyper.]
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