Orphaned vs Abandoned - What's the difference?
orphaned | abandoned |
Abandoned
(orphan)
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No longer maintained by its former owners, residents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 orphaned and abandoned
is that orphaned is abandoned 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 orphaned and abandoned
is that orphaned is (orphan) while abandoned is (abandon).orphaned
English
Adjective
- I found an orphaned project, half-completed before its author quit, and decided to finish it.
Verb
(head)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.