Abandoned vs Rakehell - What's the difference?
abandoned | rakehell | Related terms |
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No longer maintained by its former owners, residents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)
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
*:And farre away, amid their rakehell bands, / They spide a Lady left all succourlesse […].
* Barrow
Abandoned is a related term of rakehell.
As adjectives the difference between abandoned and rakehell
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 rakehell is .As a verb abandoned
is (abandon).As a noun rakehell is
.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
rakehell
English
Alternative forms
* rake-hellAdjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* rakehellyNoun
(en noun)- It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a sluggard and a rakehell do not go together.
