1. Forsaken, deserted. "Your
abandoned streams."
2. Self-abandoned, or
given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning
without restraint; irreclaimably wicked; as, an
abandoned villain.
Synonym: Profligate, dissolute, corrupt, vicious, depraved, reprobate, wicked, unprincipled, graceless, vile.
Abandoned, Profligate, Reprobate. These adjectives agree in expressing the
idea of great private depravity. Profligate has
reference to
open and shameless immoralities,
either in personal
life or political conduct; as, a profligate court, a profligate ministry. Abandoned is stronger, and has
reference to the searing of
conscience and hardening of
heart produced by a man's giving himself wholly up to iniquity; as, a
man of
abandoned nature. Reprobate describes the
condition of one
who has
become insensible to reproof, and
who is
morally abandoned and
lost beyond
hope of recovery. " God gave them over to a reprobate mind." (Rom. I. 28)
Source: Websters Vocabulary