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Abandoned vs Rejected - What's the difference?

abandoned | rejected |

As verbs the difference between abandoned and rejected

is that abandoned is (abandon) while rejected is (reject).

As an adjective abandoned

is self-abandoned, or given up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked; as, an abandoned villain .

abandoned

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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  • No longer maintained by its former owners, residents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 , :
  • Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.
  • (geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.
  • Derived terms

    * abandonedness

    Synonyms

    * deserted * forsaken * corrupt * depraved * dissolute * graceless * reprobate * unprincipled * vicious * vile * wicked

    Verb

    (head)
  • (abandon)
  • References

    rejected

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (reject)

  • reject

    English

    (wikipedia reject)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To refuse to accept.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
  • (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
  • Synonyms

    * (refuse to accept) decline, refuse, turn down, repudiate, disown, abnegate, abjure, deny

    Antonyms

    * (refuse to accept) accept, take up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that is rejected.
  • An unpopular person.
  • Synonyms

    * (something that is rejected) castaway * (an unpopular person) outcast, castaway, alien