Antonyms for abandoned
əˈbæn dəndaban·doned

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1. abandoned

   One is addicted to that which he has allowed to gain a strong, habitual, and enduring hold upon action, inclination, or involuntary tendency, as to a habit or indulgence. A man may be accustomed to labor, attached to his profession, devoted to his religion, given to study or to gluttony (in the bad sense, given over, or given up, is a stronger and more hopeless expression, as is abandoned). One inclined to luxury may become habituated to poverty. One is wedded to that which has become a second nature; as, one is wedded to science or to art. Prone is used only in a bad sense, and generally of natural tendencies; as, our hearts are prone to evil. Abandoned tells of the acquired viciousness of one who has given himself up to wickedness. Addicted may be used in a good, but more frequently a bad sense; as, addicted to study; addicted to drink. Devoted is used chiefly in the good sense; as, a mother's devoted affection.

   Antonyms:
   averse, disinclined, indisposed, unaccustomed

   Synonyms:
   accustomed, addicted, attached, devoted, disposed, given, given over, given up, habituated, inclined, prone, wedded

   Preposition:
   Addicted to vice.

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1. abandoned

   Antonyms:
   virtuous, conscientious, correct, upright, worthy, righteous, self-controlled, high-principled, steady, good

   Synonyms:
   profligate, wicked, vicious, unprincipled, reprobate, incorrigible, sinful, graceless, demoralized, dissolute, depraved, bad, licentious, corrupt

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1. abandoned, derelict, desertedadjective

   forsaken by owner or inhabitants

   "weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse"

   Antonyms:
   inhibited, inhabited

   Synonyms:
   bedraggled, woebegone, tumble-down, derelict, remiss, run-down, delinquent, flea-bitten, creaky, ramshackle, deserted, decrepit, broken-down, tatterdemalion, dilapidated, neglectful

2. abandonedadjective

   free from constraint

   "an abandoned sadness born of grief"- Liam O'Flaherty

   Antonyms:
   inhibited, inhabited

   Synonyms:
   deserted, derelict

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1. abandonedadjective

   Synonyms:
   forsaken, deserted, derelict, castaway, rejected, depraved, reprobate, incorrigible, arrant, graceless, irreformable

How to use abandoned in a sentence?

1. Michelle Shively MacIver:

   Every single minute, 1,000 gallons of water is coming out of this abandoned mine. It's got a lot of iron and it's acidic, very little life can live in an area that looks like this.

2. Joan Nestle:

   I don't feel abandoned or betrayed by another generation saying that they have to dismantle what seemed to give structure to our dreams, to form their own, that's not how history works.

3. Andrew Bates:

   Donald Trump's promises to working families throughout the campaign were lies, in reality, his administration has abandoned them to finance policies that help no one but the wealthiest Americans.

4. Roy Boyd:

   Tens of thousands of illegal aliens enter Texas every day. Our communities along the border are overrun with criminal aliens. The bodies of illegal aliens abandoned by their smugglers are found every week throughout South Texas, threats and violent actions of cartels have caused landowners and homeowners to abandon the property they worked all of their lives for. Texans along the border live in perpetual crisis as a result of the Administration’s open border policy.

5. Amelia Penniman:

   Republican candidates have effectively abandoned the voters they are campaigning to represent -- standing by Trump's disastrous trade war as farmers, manufacturers and small businesses in their communities are hurt, trade War Watch will keep a running tab of the casualties of the trade war to make clear to voters that Republicans are not on their side.

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