Concept cluster: Negative qualities > Abandonment or desolation
n
An abandoned building or structure.
n
An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
adj
No longer in working order; broken.
n
Wasteland; a desert or other place that does not support life.
n
(obsolete) Things lost or destroyed.
n
(dated) An abandoned or forsaken person; an outcast.
n
Obsolete spelling of desert [(usually in the plural) That which is deserved or merited; a just punishment or reward.]
adj
Usually of a place: abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited.
n
An uninhabited island, especially one in the tropics.
adj
Turned into a desert
n
The act of deserting.
n
(archaic) A deserted condition.
adj
Made unfit for habitation or use because of neglect, destruction etc.
n
A place or country wasted and forsaken.
adj
(obsolete) eloquent
v
(intransitive, of the heart) To stop beating.
adj
(dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Abandoned; forlorn.
adj
Abandoned, deserted, left behind.
adj
Obsolete form of forlorn. [Abandoned, deserted, left behind.]
adj
Deserted; abandoned.
n
(informal) Someone (or something) doomed; a hopeless case, especially someone who is bound to die soon.
adj
(US, regional, colloquial) Synonym of gone (“weak; faint; feeling goneness”)
n
(obsolete) Ill desert; failure to deserve something.
adj
(medicine, of an injury or condition) No longer fresh or recent.
adj
(archaic) Not alive; lifeless.
adj
(obsolete, dialect, West Country and Australia) Absent, having quit, given up, or having abandoned one's post.
n
Obsolete form of lakh.
adj
(of military equipment, resources, etc.) Destroyed during military combat.
adj
(of a person) No longer existent, deceased.
n
(fandom slang) One of the fictional characters stranded on the mysterious island on the television show Lost.
v
To abandon in a remote, desolate place, as on a desert island.
n
(informal, derogatory) One who does not have a social life.
adj
(of a person) Abandoned or marooned.
adj
(Singapore) remote; deserted
adj
Not alive; dead or inanimate.
adj
(obsolete) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
adj
(obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.
n
A devastated, not (or no longer) habitable area.

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