Definition of Derelict

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Derelict

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

Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful.

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

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

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Derelict Quotations

I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.
Geddy Lee

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.
Linus Pauling

In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.
Timothy West

Derelict Translations

derelict in German is verlassen
derelict in Spanish is derrelicto

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