Derelict

Word DERELICT
Character 8
Hyphenation der e lict
Pronunciations /ˈdɛɹəlɪkt/

Definitions and meanings of "Derelict"

What do we mean by derelict?

Deserted by an owner or keeper; abandoned. adjective

Run-down; dilapidated. adjective

Neglectful of duty or obligation; remiss. synonym: negligent. adjective

A homeless or jobless person; a vagrant. noun

Abandoned property, especially a ship abandoned at sea. noun

Land left dry by a permanent recession of the water line. noun

Left; abandoned by the owner or guardian.

Unfaithful; neglectful of requirement or responsibility: as, derelict in duty.

That which is abandoned; in law, an article of goods or any commodity thrown away, relinquished, or abandoned by the owner; specifically, a vessel abandoned at sea. noun

Land left dry by a change of the water-line. noun

A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea. noun

A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use. noun

Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned. adjective

Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful. adjective

Abandoned, forsaken; (of ship) abandoned at sea; dilapidated, neglected. adjective

Negligent in performing a duty. adjective

Property abandoned by its former owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea. noun

An abandoned or forsaken person; an outcast. noun

Property abandoned by its former owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.

An abandoned or forsaken person; an outcast.

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.)

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The word "derelict" in example sentences

Who wants to live in derelict, isolating urban sprawl, anyway? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Richards shows Brown agonising about how to raise the living standards of the poor – a concern that never animated Tony Blair – by finding stealthy means to fund public services, which, as he reminds us, were close to being in derelict when Labour took power. ❋ Nick Cohen (2010)

Now that this derelict is discovered, that secret is at risk of being revealed. ❋ Mark (2008)

Christ I still remember with fear when the dog handler used to get the probationers on night shift to hide for them in derelict bulidings or woodland - ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)

In the background, as the hallway monitor told me an anecdote about street wise teachers who brought in derelict vehicles for a free paint job courtesy of teen vandals, was the mandatory Multiculturalism is Strength mural. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In general it has to be dumped in derelict and unguarded houses, where such of it as is not looted is ruined by damp. ❋ Unknown (1944)

Barge 202 was one of 34 so-called derelict vessels the Coast Guard monitors along the Columbia. ❋ Joel Millman (2011)

The derelict are the men and women in the mortgage business and the financial community. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Hundreds of fans stormed the gates and overwhelming security personnel - some of whom Ngoepe called derelict in their duties. ❋ Unknown (2002)

U-turn in government policy, Kangai told the Gazette that land classified as derelict would not be paid for. ❋ Unknown (1998)

I remembered, then, the ship I had heard of, shortly before entering the hold of the Tuka, that which had been identified as a derelict, one presumably drifting downriver, lost from the confusion of the night, illuminated by our diversion of the burning Olivia, a pasang or so to the east. ❋ Norman, John, 1931- (1981)

The derelict was a schooner, a lifeless and soddened hulk, so heavy and uncontesting that its foundering seemed at hand. ❋ Unknown (1915)

In other cases the first stanza or the chorus is retained; in still others the new song is sprinkled with here a phrase and there an epithet recalling the derelict that gave rise to it. ❋ William Allan Neilson (1907)

I was a woman once, just as a derelict was a ship once. ❋ Mary Cholmondeley (1892)

Addabbo agreed, calling the derelict building "a property that has probably very little value to them but a lot of value to us." ❋ Unknown (2009)

It deals with mandatories -- that new system of administering what you might call the derelict colonial possessions of conquered empires which have been disassociated from their former territories-mandatories which some nation takes in trust to administer, subject to the terms laid down by the League through its Council, and subject to report of the mandatories to Council, and the consideration of those reports by the Assembly (of which I shall speak a little later) on the basic principles that it is a trust in every respect, and that it is not to be administered for the selfish interest of the mandatory but in the interest of the people that come under the administration itself. ❋ Unknown (1921)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if the US abandons its segment (s) of the ISS doesn't it then become a "derelict" and subject to "salvage" rights? ❋ Unknown (2009)

P.S. I used to go scrabbling around all kind of derelict buildings in Cairo back when I had me a job down near there that offered me all manner of good reasons for scrabbling. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Looking at houses like the Bittners ', it's hard to imagine the town's housing stock was ever "derelict," as Donna Netschert said it was in 1964 when her family moved in. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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