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Abandoned vs Seclusion - What's the difference?

abandoned | seclusion |

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.

As a verb abandoned

is past tense of abandon.

As a noun seclusion is

the act of secluding, shutting out or keeping apart.

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  • No longer maintained by its former owners, residents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

    seclusion

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia seclusion) (en noun)
  • the act of secluding, shutting out or keeping apart
  • the state of being secluded or shut out, as from company, society, the world, etc.
  • retirement
  • privacy
  • solitude
  • a secluded, isolated or private place
  • mature phase of the extratropical cyclone lifecycle
  • warm seclusion

    References

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