derelict

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. a person without a home, job, or property
• Hypernyms:
pauper
2. a ship abandoned on the high seas
• Syn:
abandoned ship
• Hypernyms:
ship

II - adjective

1. forsaken by owner or inhabitants
- weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse
• Syn:
abandoned, deserted
• Similar to:
uninhabited
2. in deplorable condition
- a street of bedraggled tenements
- a broken-down fence
- a ramshackle old pier
- a tumble-down shack
• Syn:
bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down
• Similar to:
damaged
• Derivationally related forms:
tatterdemalion (for: tatterdemalion)
3. 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
• Syn:
creaky, decrepit, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone
• Similar to:
worn
4. failing in what duty requires
- derelict (or delinquent) in his duty
- neglectful of his duties
- remiss of you not to pay your bills
• Syn:
delinquent, neglectful, remiss
• Similar to:
negligent
• Derivationally related forms:
remissness (for: remiss), neglectfulness (for: neglectful)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down, delinquent, neglectful, remiss, abandoned, deserted, creaky, decrepit, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone, abandoned ship