Cancelled vs Abandoned - What's the difference?
cancelled | abandoned |
(cancel)
No longer planned or scheduled.
(of a mail item) Marked over the stamp, to show that the stamp has been used.
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No longer maintained by its former owners, residents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)
As verbs the difference between cancelled and abandoned
is that cancelled is past tense of cancel while abandoned is past tense of abandon.As adjectives the difference between cancelled and abandoned
is that cancelled is no longer planned or scheduled while abandoned is self-abandoned, or given up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked; as, an abandoned villain.cancelled
English
Alternative forms
* canceled (US)Verb
(head)- The game was cancelled because of snow on the field.
Adjective
(-)- The cancelled show would have drawn 5,000 fans.
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.