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Derelict   /dˈɛrəlˌɪkt/   Listen
Derelict

adjective
1.
Worn and broken down by hard use.  Synonyms: creaky, decrepit, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone.  "A decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape" , "A flea-bitten sofa" , "A run-down neighborhood" , "A woebegone old shack"
2.
Forsaken by owner or inhabitants.  Synonyms: abandoned, deserted.
3.
Failing in what duty requires.  Synonyms: delinquent, neglectful, remiss.  "Neglectful of his duties" , "Remiss of you not to pay your bills"
4.
In deplorable condition.  Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down.  "A broken-down fence" , "A ramshackle old pier" , "A tumble-down shack"
noun
1.
A person without a home, job, or property.
2.
A ship abandoned on the high seas.  Synonym: abandoned ship.





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"Derelict" Quotes from Famous Books



... can; but none of us can be blind to the fact that he has lost more flesh during the week that we have lain here than any among us—none of us can be blind to the fact that the committee has been derelict in its duty, either through negligence or a graver fault, in thus offering for our suffrages a gentleman who, however pure his own motives may be, has really ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... place of our grandmother's spinet and harpsichord, and every girl in every family was taught to play upon it after a fashion. She who had not taste or talent for music gave it up after her marriage. In this particular she was no more derelict than the "performer" of our times, whose florid flourish of classic music costs thousands where her grandmother's strumming ...
— The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) • Marion Harland
... now, Guy. A good old soul, my uncle, d'y' see; but the blood was everything to him. And he put it in the bond and I am bound by it: that only the lawful issue, a son of the house, shall inherit. 'I'll have no strange derelict child inherit my estate.' His own words. So this fair estate, lacking lawful issue of my body or my old uncle's son—and he is dead—it goes out of the family. Oh, a stormy, intolerant, but well-meaning old uncle, who would have none of his property left to—Oh, but ...
— Wide Courses • James Brendan Connolly
... in the boat three were without life. Those whose faint breathing indicated that they had not yet reached the point of death were too weak and indifferent to rid the boat of the bodies of the others. Ever since the homeward-bound whaler had struck a derelict in a gale of wind north of the Falklands and foundered, this little boat, surviving the shipwreck as by a miracle, ...
— And Thus He Came • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... destined to be left a derelict at home, as falls to the hapless lot of far too many good ...
— The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent • S.M. Hussey


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