Associations to the word «Derelict»

DERELICT, adjective. 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.

DERELICT, adjective. Negligent in performing a duty.

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

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

DERELICT, noun. (dated) An abandoned or forsaken person; an outcast.

DERELICT, noun. 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.)

DERELICT, noun. A person without a home, job, or property.

DERELICT, noun. A ship abandoned on the high seas.

DERELICT, adjective. 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".

DERELICT, adjective. Forsaken by owner or inhabitants ; "weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse".

DERELICT, adjective. Failing in what duty requires; "derelict (or delinquent) in his duty"; "neglectful of his duties"; "remiss of you not to pay your bills".

DERELICT, adjective. In deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack".