Forgotten vs Abandoned - What's the difference?
forgotten | abandoned |
A person or thing that has been forgotten.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 31, author=Alan Feuer, title=Headliners of 07: A Subway Savior, Rampaging Rats, and a $12 Million Dog, work=New York Times
, passage=Luckily for these unfortunate forgottens , New Year is approaching, a time when, despite the intuitions of the calendar, our thoughts often turn to the past. }}
English adjectives ending in -en
English irregular past participles
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No longer maintained by its former owners, residents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 adjectives the difference between forgotten and abandoned
is that forgotten is of which knowledge has been lost; which is no longer remembered while abandoned is self-abandoned, or given up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked; as, an abandoned villain.As verbs the difference between forgotten and abandoned
is that forgotten is past participle of lang=en while abandoned is past tense of abandon.As a noun forgotten
is a person or thing that has been forgotten.forgotten
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(en noun)citation
abandoned
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.