Nouns
1. (n.) derelict;
- a person without a home, job, or property;
2. (n.) abandoned ship, derelict;
- a ship abandoned on the high seas;
Adjectives
1. (adj.) creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone;
- worn and broken down by hard use;
- “a creaky shack”; “a decrepit bus…its seats held together with friction tape”; “a flea-bitten sofa”; “a run-down neighborhood”; “a woebegone old shack”;
2. (adj.) abandoned, derelict, deserted;
- forsaken by owner or inhabitants;
- “weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse”;
3. (adj.) delinquent, derelict, neglectful, remiss;
- failing in what duty requires;
- “derelict (or delinquent) in his duty”; “neglectful of his duties”; “remiss of you not to pay your bills”;
4. (adj.) bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down;
- in deplorable condition;
- “a street of bedraggled tenements”; “a broken-down fence”; “a ramshackle old pier”; “a tumble-down shack”;
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