Abandoned vs Abandonable - What's the difference?
abandoned | abandonable |
Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked; as, an abandoned villain.
No longer maintained by its former owners, residents
* (rfdate), Thomson:
Free from constraint; uninhibited.
* 1919 , :
(geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
(abandon)
Able to be abandoned; suitable for abandonment.
As adjectives the difference between abandoned and abandonable
is that abandoned is self-abandoned, or given up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked; as, an abandoned villain while abandonable is able to be abandoned; suitable for abandonment.As a verb abandoned
is (abandon).abandoned
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.
Derived terms
* abandonednessSynonyms
* deserted * forsaken * corrupt * depraved * dissolute * graceless * reprobate * unprincipled * vicious * vile * wickedVerb
(head)References
abandonable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- In place of this distinction he suggests a gradation of more or less readily abandonable sentences... — PJ Sheehan