derelict

Examples

• All

• The city has many derelicts who sleep on the streets and often go unnoticed by passersby.

• Garbage can lids are lifted as derelicts in the streets hunt for food.

  The Player (1992)

• If they lost the farm, what would happen to those poor derelicts, Ted and Matthew?

  Fiction book (2000)

• "We never spent much time on winos and derelicts in those days...

  Fiction book (1990)

• The derelict grabs him.

  Fiction book (1996)

• The defendant was a private religious foundation which, among other activities, rehabilitated "drug addicts, derelicts, and criminals."

  Academic text (2017)

• Mr. Tunstall's got a soft spot for runaways, derelicts, vagrant types.

  Young Guns (1988)

• Every evening, volunteers distribute food to derelicts living in the park.

Synonyms

H

homeless person

vsderelict

76 2.3

A person who has no home and often lives on the streets

adds loss of work and property and being neglected by society

H

homeless

vsderelict

73 1.6

A person who has no home to live in

includes lacking home plus no job or property and social neglect

D

drifter

vsderelict

46 5.9

A person who moves from place to place and has no permanent home or steady job

is less about movement and more about complete social and economic neglect

V

vagrant

vsderelict

25 7.7

A person who has no home and moves from place to place, often begging

focuses more broadly on lacking home, work, property, and social support

P

pauper

vsderelict

19 7.4

A very poor person who depends on public charity

is about lacking home, work, and property rather than only low income

V

vagabond

vsderelict

15 7.6

A person who moves from place to place without a home or job

stresses permanent lack of possessions, work, and social care rather than travel

D

down-and-out

vsderelict

1 7.7

A person with no money, job, or home

is similar but also highlights being neglected by the wider community

U

unhoused

vsderelict

6.7

People who do not have a permanent home

also covers loss of work, possessions, and social neglect

L

lackland

vsderelict

• Archaic

9.9

A word used long ago for a person with no land or property

is modern and covers lack of home, work, property, and social neglect

Antonyms

H

homeowner

216 2.5

A person who owns the house or apartment where they live

Compounds

D

derelict car

5.3

An abandoned car that is broken and left in bad condition

Surface Forms

Etymology