Derelict

Definition: Derelict

Derelict

Adjective

1. Deserted or abandoned as by an owner; "a derelict ship".

2. Failing in what duty requires; "derelict (or delinquent) in his duty"; "neglectful of his duties"; "remiss of you not to pay your bills".

Noun

1. A person unable to support himself.

2. A ship abandoned on the high seas.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "derelict" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Synonyms: Derelict

Land

Coast, shore, scar, strand, beach; playa; bank, lea; seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach; ironbound coast; loom of the land; derelict; innings; alluvium, alluvion; ancon.

Relinquishment

Derelict; Adjective: foundling; jetsam, waif.

Adjective: relinquished; Verb: cast off, derelict; unowned, unappropriated, unculled; left; (residuary).

Seclusion Exclusion

Unvisited, unintroduced, uninvited, unwelcome; under a cloud, left to shift for oneself, derelict, outcast.

Crosswords: Derelict

Sometimes I think the Blitz left us with more derelict minds than derelict buildings (Midnight Lace; writing credit: Janet Green; Ivan Goff)

Why, there's nothing up there but murderous cutthroats and derelict old barflies, and if they ever felt exclusive brother, they're past it now. (The Magnificent Seven; writing credit: William Roberts; Walter Newman)

The Derelict (1937)

Derelict (1930)

The Derelict (1917)

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Books

• Contaminated and Derelict Land: The Proceedings of Green 2: The Second International Symposium on Geotechnics Related to the Environment Held in kra (reference)

• Derelict for Trade: A Great New Solar Queen Adventure (reference)

• Galactic Derelict (reference)

• Recycling Derelict Land (reference)

• The Derelict (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Lost in Space: The Derelict (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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East end of Thatch Cay, U. S. Virgin Islands Old derelict, victim of storms past. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A derelict boat rotting away in the wetlands of Folly Island. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A derelict boat. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Sea turtle entangled in derelict gillnet. Credit: Fisheries.

An old derelict that will fish no more. Credit: Fisheries.

A derelict ferry at the Turning Basin site adjacent to Kenco Marine and a Coastal America site. The ferry has since been removed as part of the restoration project. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Fish Island, New Bedford. The derelict vessels have been removed. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A derelict boat on the beach at the prison island of Isla Gorgona. Credit: Small World.

Tied up astern of USS General Sterling Price, on the Western Rivers during the Civil War. Note derelict machinery in the foreground. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Economic History

Liberia

Five years after the war, pipe- borne water and electricity are still unavailable and schools, hospitals, roads ,and infrastructure remain derelict. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "derelict": derelict land clearance area. Additional references.

Beginning with "derelict": derelict-land.

Ending with "derelict": half-derelict, near-derelict, semi-derelict.

Albanian

që shkel (outre), i rrugës, i braktisur (cast off, castaway, desolate, forgotten, forlorn, forsaken, godforsaken, lorn, love-lorn, neglected, odd, stand empty, untrodden, waste). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهمل (abandoned, antiquated, careless, deserted, discarded, disregarded, disregardful, disused, forgetful, forgotten, forsaken, heedless, ignored, in disuse, inadvertent, inattentive, incautious, left out, left over, neglected, neglectful, negligent, no longer of use, obsolete, omitted, out of use, outdated, reckless, refuse, regardless, remiss, slack, sloven, unpointed, waste), ‏مهجور (abandoned, antiquated, archaic, archaism, bygone, deserted, desolate, disused, forlorn, forsaken, in disuse, lonely, lonesome, obsolete, outdated, outmoded, solitary, unfrequented), ‏منسى (forgotten), ‏سفينة مهجورة, ‏المنبوذ من المجتمع. (various references)

Bulgarian 

скитник (bum, casual, drifter, erratic, floater, hobo, itinerant, knockabout, land-loper, land-louper, nomad, on the wallaby, roadster, roamer, rover, runabout, straggler, swagman, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer), нехаен (careless, cavalier, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, improvident, inadvertent, mindless, negligent, perfunctory, remiss, thoughtless, unmindful, unthinking), зарязан (on the shelf), изоставена вещ, изоставен (abandoned, desolate, destitute, forlorn, forsaken, lorn, on the shelf, uncared for, uncultivated, untended). (various references)

Chinese 

遗弃. (various references)

Czech

zchátralý (decrepit, dilapidated, moth-eaten, ramshackle), zanedbaný (frowsy, frowzy, neglected, neglectful, squalid, uncared for, uncultivated, unkempt), vìc bez majitele, opuštìný (abandoned, deserted, desolate, destitute, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, uninhabited). (various references)

Farsi 

متروک (Bleak, Desolate, Lonely), کشتی متروکه , ترک شده بوسیله مالک یاقیم , بی سرپرست . (various references)

Finnish

ajelehtiva laiva (a derelict ship). (various references)

French

délaissement (desertion), délaissé (deserted, desolate), négligent (delinquent), en ruines, clochard, abandonné (deserted), épave. (various references)

German

verlassen (abandon, abandoned, abandonment, derelicted, desert, deserted, desertion, desolate, evacuate, exit, forlorn, forsake, leave, lonely, loose, move away, quit, quitted, quitting, solitary, to derelict, to desert, to evacuate, to forlorn, to leave, untrodden). (various references)

Greek 

έρημοσ (bleak, desert, desolate, forlorn, lonesome, waste, wilderness), εγκαταλειμμένος (deserted), εγκαταλελειμένοσ (lorn), ετοιμόρροποσ (crumbly, decrepit, floppy, groggy, ramshackle, tottery, tumble down), ετοιμόρροπος (tumble-down). (various references)

Hebrew 

שומם (bleak, desolate, empty, lonely), עזוב (abandoned, deserted, forsaken), נטוש (abandoned, deserted, extending, forsaken, immigrant, stranded). (various references)

Hungarian

uratlan, lezüllött ember, kötelességmulasztó (delinquent), hanyag (heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, inobservant, inofficious, insouciant, lax, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, oblivious, perfunctory, remiss, slipshod, sloppy, slow, slubberer), gazdátlan tárgy (waif), gazdátlan jószág, gazdátlan hajó, gazdátlan (ownerless, unattended, unclaimed, unowned, waif), emberroncs, elhagyott tárgy, elhagyott jószág, elhagyott hajó, elhagyott (deserted, desolate, forsaken, lone, lonely, lonesome, lorn, recluse, sequestered), bitang (stray). (various references)

Indonesian

terlantar (unattended), tak terurus. (various references)

Italian

derelitto, relitto (outcast, shipwreck, wreck, wreckage), abbandonato (abandoned, deserted, forlorn, forsaken, lonely, lovelorn, neglected, outcast). (various references)

Manx

treigit (abandoned, deserted, ditched, forlorn, forsaken, lorn, love-lorn, stranded), tholtan (ruin), lhong hreigit. (various references)

Pig Latin

erelictday.(various references)

Portuguese

desamparado (defenceless, destitute, forlorn, forsaken, friendless, helpless, naked, outcast, unrelieved), objeto abandonado, negligente (careless, devil-may-care, heedless, idle, inadvertent, inattentive, incurious, inobservant, lazy, loose, mindless, neglectful, negligent, perfunctory, reckless, regardless, slack, unheeding, unmindful, unwary), navio abandonado, abandonado (abandoned, abandonee, alone, bereaved, bereft, comfortless, forlorn, forsaken, godforsaken, helpless, lonely, lorn, love-lorn, outcast, sole, stranded, unattended, unattending, uncared-for, unrelieved, unused, waste). (various references)

Romanian

vas abandonat pe apã, persoanã care se eschiveazã, pãrãsit (abandoned, depopulated, deserted, desolate, forlorn, forsaken, godforsaken, lorn, neglected, rusty), obiect abandonat, neglijent (careless, casual, casually, floppy, forgetful, inadvertent, loose, neglectful, negligent, ragged, remiss, slack in duty, slacky, sleazy, slipshod, slothful, unheeding, unkempt, unmindful, untidy, unwary), abandonat (abandoned). (various references)

Russian 

оставленный (waste), брошенный (forsaken), бродяга (bum, dosser, drifter, drummer, gadabout, gadder, hobo, landloper, landlouper, maverick, nomad, prowler, rambler, rogue, runabout, runagate, stroller, sundowner, tramp, tramper, vagabond, vagrant), покинутый (abandoned, desolate, forlorn, forsaken, lorn, love-lorn). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zanemaren (neglected, uncared for), odbačen (cast off, castoff, dump, forlorn, off-cast, reject, thrown, turndown), napušten (abandoned, bereaved, deserted, desolate, forsaken, lonely). (various references)

Spanish

derrelicto. (various references)

Swedish

övergiven (abandoned, desolate, forlorn, forsaken, lorn, orphan, orphane). (various references)

Turkish

dışlanmış kimse, terkedilmiş mal, terkedilmiş (abandoned, deserted, desolate, disused, forlorn, forsaken, lovelorn, vacant), sorumsuz (feckless, flighty, irresponsible, trigger-happy, unaccountable, unamenable, undutiful), sahipsiz mal (unclaimed good, waif), sahipsiz (lordless, ownerless, unappropriated, unattended, unclaimed, unowned, vacant), ihmalkâr kişi, ihmalkâr (careless, forgetful, inattentive, neglectful, negligent, oblivious), ihmalci (careless, forgetful, inattentive, neglectful, negligent, oblivious, remiss, slack, unheedful), harabe (desolation, ruin, wrack, wreck, wrecks), gemi enkazı (flotage, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, Lagan, shipwreck, wrack, wreck, wreckage). (various references)

Ukrainian

судно, покинуте командою, щось непотрібне (discard), знедолений (castaway, offcast, outcast, outcaste, outlaw, pariah), безхазяйна річ, безхазяйний (ownerless), покинутий власником. (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật vô chủ, vật không ai thừa nhận, vô chủ (ownerless), tàu vô chủ, người bị bỏ rơi không ai nhìn nhận, không ai nhìn nhận, bị bỏ rơi (abandoned, deserted, love-lorn, off-cast). (various references)

relicta, relictae, relicti, relictis, relictisque, relicto, relictos, relictum, relictus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "derelict": dereliction, derelictions, derelicts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Derelict" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Deeralok, deralict, derclict, derelect, derelic, derelics, derilict, derlict, diralite, drelict. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: recited, reticle, retiled, tierced, tiercel.

-2 letters: ceiled, ceiler, cerite, clerid, credit, deceit, decile, deicer, delict, deltic, dieter, direct, lieder, recite, reedit, relict, relied, retied, retile, tercel, tierce, tiered, tirled, triced.

-3 letters: ceder, cered, cider, cited, citer, creed, creel, cried, deice, deter, dicer, edict, edile, eider, elder, elect, elide, elite, erect, idler, liter, litre.

+1 letter: decaliter, deciliter, derelicts.

+2 letters: cartelised, cartelized, cloistered, credential, creditable, decaliters, deciliters, decrepitly, dielectric, discreetly, discretely, flichtered, interlaced, replicated.

+3 letters: centralised, centralized, credentials, credulities, declarative, dereliction, dielectrics, electrified, interlocked, predictable, reconditely, reductively, reduplicate, reticulated, revictualed, sclerotized.

+4 letters: accreditable, cantilevered, chesterfield, credentialed, decelerating, deceleration, decentralize, dechlorinate, decoratively, derelictions, destructible, detractively, glycerinated, helicoptered, indiscreetly, intercalated, iridescently, predictively, predilection, recalibrated, recirculated, recultivated, reduplicated, reduplicates, reinoculated, relubricated, restrictedly, revictualled, stepchildren, tredecillion, triglyceride, vermiculated.