Licentious vs Abandoned - What's the difference?
licentious | abandoned | Synonyms |
Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct.
Disregarding accepted rules.
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No longer maintained by its former owners, residents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)
Licentious is a synonym of abandoned.
As adjectives the difference between licentious and abandoned
is that licentious is lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct 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).licentious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* licentiousnessSee also
* incontinentabandoned
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.