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marooned

marooned

1 7.9
Alone in a place you cannot leave
  • adjective
  • /məˈrun/
translation icon : varado
  • Dude, I am rock-marooned, I can't climb down.

Examples

  • I hollered, "I'm marooned."

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Was it ridiculous marooned before that?

  • But we were lonely together, and I felt marooned.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • In this one you play as a marooned Martian Rover.

  • After their boat capsized, the survivors found themselves marooned on an isolated island.

  • The explorers felt marooned in the vast wilderness, cut off from the outside world without any means of communication.

  • When the storm hit the coast, the sailors were marooned on the rocky shore, waiting for rescue.

Synonyms

isolated
vsmarooned
56 3.8

Far from other places or people and hard to reach

is about being left behind in a place that is hard to reach
stranded
vsmarooned
3 4.0

Unable to leave a place because no help or transport is available

is left in an inaccessible place often intentionally or by circumstance
abandoned
vsmarooned
2 2.8

Left empty and not used, often by people who lived there

is about a person left alone in an unreachable location rather than emptiness
trapped
vsmarooned
4.4

Unable to escape from a dangerous place or situation, for example when surrounded by attackers

is left in a remote place without help and not necessarily facing danger

How Isolated

marooned
1 7.9
isolated
56 3.8
stranded
3 4.0
stuck
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

marooned positive

Morphology

marooned = maroon (transparent) = maroon + ed

Formed by the regular past-participle/adjectival '-ed' from the verb 'maroon', so the meaning 'stranded' follows standard derivation.

Etymology

Marooned comes from an old Spanish word cimarrón that meant 'wild' or 'runaway', a name for people who escaped into the hills. Sailors later used the verb maroon to mean 'leave someone on a lonely island', so marooned means 'stranded and left alone'.