Flagitious vs Abandoned - What's the difference?
flagitious | abandoned | Synonyms |
(literary) Of people: guilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal.
* 1716 Nov 7th, quoted from 1742, probably Alexander Pope, God's Revenge Against Punning'', from
(literary) Extremely brutal or wicked; heinous, monstrous.
* 1959 (1985), Rex Stout, "Assault on a Brownstone", Death Times Three , page 186:
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No longer maintained by its former owners, residents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)
Flagitious is a synonym of abandoned.
As adjectives the difference between flagitious and abandoned
is that flagitious is (literary) of people: guilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal while 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
(abandon).flagitious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)''Miscellanies, 3rd volume, page 227:
- This young Nobleman was not only a flagitious Punster himself, but was accessary to the Punning of others, by Consent, by Provocation, by Connivance, and by Defence of the Evil committed […].
- As he entered he boomed: "Monstrous! Flagitious !"
Synonyms
* (extremely brutal or cruel) (l), (l), (l), (l)See also
* (l)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.
