Abandoned vs Rejected - What's the difference?
abandoned | rejected |
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No longer maintained by its former owners, residents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)
(reject)
To refuse to accept.
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(basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
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)- Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.