Derelict

['derəlɪkt] or ['dɛrəlɪkt]

Definition

(noun.) a person without a home, job, or property.

(adj.) failing in what duty requires; 'derelict (or delinquent) in his duty'; 'neglectful of his duties'; 'remiss of you not to pay your bills' .

Checker: Melva--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands.

(a.) Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful.

(n.) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.

(n.) A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use.

Edited by Horace

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. (Law.) Forsaken, relinquished, abandoned, left.[2]. Unfaithful, faithless.

n. (Law.) [1]. Abandoned property.[2]. Tract of land (fit for cultivation) left dry by the retirement of the sea.

Checker: Truman

Definition

adj. forsaken: abandoned.—n. anything forsaken or abandoned.—n. Derelic′tion act of forsaking unfaithfulness or remissness: state of being abandoned: land gained from the water by a change of water-line.

Checker: Rudolph