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abandoned
English
Etymology
From Middle English abandoned, equivalent to abandon +? -ed.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??bæn.dn?d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??bæn.dn?d/
Adjective
abandoned (comparative more abandoned, superlative most abandoned)
- Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked. [First attested from 1350 to 1470]
- No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted. [Late 15th century]
- Free from constraint; uninhibited. [Late 17th century]
- (geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
- abandonedness
Translations
Verb
abandoned
- simple past tense and past participle of abandon
References
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goatish
English
Etymology
goat +? -ish
Adjective
goatish (comparative more goatish, superlative most goatish)
- Goaty, goatlike.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 2, [1]
- An admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!
- 1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica, London: Lowndes, Volume II, Chapter XIII, p. 328, [2]
- Many are the men, of every rank, quality, and degree here, who would much rather riot in these goatish embraces, than share the pure and lawful bliss derived from matrimonial, mutual love.
- 1887, Benvenuto Cellini, Autobiography, translated by John Addington Symonds, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1910, Book 2, Chapter XXI, p. 294, [3]
- Though I call them satyrs, they showed nothing of the satyr except little horns and a goatish head; all the rest of their form was human.
- 1985, Primo Levi, If Not Now, When?, translated by William Weaver, New York: Summit, Chapter 12, p. 330,
- She was perfumed, and beside the wave of her perfume, Mendel perceived uneasily the heavy, goatish odor of Pavel's sweating body.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 2, [1]
Derived terms
- goatishly
- goatishness
Translations
See also
- caprine
- goatlike
- goaty
- goaten
- haedine
- hircine
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