abandoned

adjective

No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.

Free from constraint; uninhibited.

Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.

(geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.

Roots

bannumban- · Frankish · proclamation, ban

Synonyms for abandoned

derelictn desertedadj forsakenv neglectedadj disusedadj relinquishedadj forlornadj discardedadj maroonedadj uninhabitedadj rejectedadj untendedadj untenantedadj

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The word abandoned breaks down into one root of Frankish origin: the root ban-, from Frankish bannum (“proclamation, ban”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.