derelict
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈdɛɹəlɪkt/
derelict
- Abandoned, forsaken; given up by the natural owner or guardian; (of a ship) abandoned at sea, dilapidated, neglected; (of a spacecraft) abandoned in outer space.
- There was a derelict ship on the island.
- The affections which these exposed or derelict children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion.
- Negligent in performing a duty.
- Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful.
- They easily prevailed, so as to seize upon the vacant, unoccupied, and derelict minds of his friends; and instantly they turned the vessel wholly out of the course of his policy.
- A government which is either unable or unwilling to redress such wrongs is derelict to its highest duties.
- (abandoned) abandoned
- French: abandonné, délaissé; (tombé) en ruines
- German: aufgegeben, verfallen, verlassen
- Italian: abbandonato
- Portuguese: abandonado, derelito (Brazil), derrelito (Brazil), derrelicto (Portugal)
- Russian: бро́шенный
- Spanish: abandonado, derelicto
- French: négligent
- German: pflichtvergessen
- Italian: negligente, trascurato
- Portuguese: negligente
- Spanish: negligente, derelicto
derelict (plural derelicts)
- Property abandoned by its former owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.
- (dated) An abandoned or forsaken person; an outcast.
- 1911 Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax” (Norton 2005, p.1364):
- 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 Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax” (Norton 2005, p.1364):
- A homeless and/or jobless person; a person who is (perceived as) negligent in their personal affairs and hygiene. (This sense is a modern development of the preceding sense.)
- 2002, in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence, The Boy in the Bush, edited by Paul Eggert, page 22:
- 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 —
- 2002, in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence, The Boy in the Bush, edited by Paul Eggert, page 22:
- Italian: oggetto abbandonato, rifiuto
- French: épave (humaine), paria, clochard
- Italian: derelitto, relitto della società
- Russian: изго́й
- Spanish: paria
- Russian: отщепе́нец
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