Dictionary Entry
derelict
derelict is a 8-letter English word with 10 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands.
- 2adjective
Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful.
- 3noun
A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.
- 4noun
A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use.
- 5noun
a ship abandoned on the high seas
- 6noun
a person without a home, job, or property
- 7adjective
in deplorable condition
"a street of bedraggled tenements"
"a broken-down fence"
- 8adjective
failing in what duty requires
"derelict (or delinquent) in his duty"
"neglectful of his duties"
Synonyms
- 9adjective
forsaken by owner or inhabitants
"weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse"
- 10adjective
worn and broken down by hard use
"a creaky shack"
"a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"
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