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Määritelmät

Adjektiivi

  1. Given up by the guardian or owner; abandoned, forsaken.
  2. (specifically) Of a ship: abandoned at sea; of a spacecraft: abandoned in outer space.
  3. (by extension) Of property: in a poor state due to abandonment or neglect; dilapidated, neglected.
  4. (figurative) Adrift, lost.
  5. (chiefly US) Negligent in performing a duty; careless.

Substantiivi

  1. (uncountable) Property abandoned by its former guardian or owner; (countable) an item of such property.
  2. (uncountable, specifically, law) Property abandoned at sea with no hope of recovery and no expectation of being returned to its owner; (countable) an item of such property, especially a ship.
  3. (countable, dated) An abandoned or forsaken person; an outcast, a waif.
  4. (countable, by extension, derogatory) A homeless or jobless person; a vagrant; also, a person who is (perceived as) negligent in their hygiene and personal affairs.
  5. (countable, chiefly US) A person who is negligent in performing a duty.

Verbi

  1. (transitive) To abandon or forsake (someone or something).
  2. (intransitive) To neglect a duty.

Esimerkit

  • There was a derelict ship on the island.
  • The affections which these exposed or derelict children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion.
  • They easily prevailed, so as to seize upon the vacant, unoccupied, and derelict minds of his friends; and instantly they turned the vessel wholly out of the course of his policy.
  • A government which is either unable or unwilling to redress such wrongs is derelict to its highest duties.
  • Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May". / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; / Then "Here", said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."
  • A rather pathetic figure, the Lady Frances, a beautiful woman, still in fresh middle age, and yet, by a strange chance, the last derelict of what only twenty years ago was a goodly fleet.
  • As they hunt, the Archers and Duval find many derelicts and ne'er-do-wells in many parts of Paris.
  • If they're lazy derelicts and ne'er-do-wells she'll eat 'em up. But she's waiting for real men — British to the bone —
  • We see the distinction at work when victims of natural disasters and terrorist attacks are treated more generously than derelicts and drug addicts.
  • There were three of the derelicts. Perhaps they’d been towed in together. The tugboat skippers had probably tried to leave them in a perfect line as a personal conceit.

Taivutusmuodot

Monikkoderelicts
Komparatiivimore derelict
Superlatiivimost derelict