noun
- A person without a home, job, or property.
- A ship abandoned on the high seas.
- synonyms: abandoned ship
adjective
- Worn and broken down by hard use.
- usage: "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus... Its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack"
- synonyms: creaky, decrepit, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone
- Forsaken by owner or inhabitants .
- usage: "weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse"
- Failing in what duty requires.
- usage: "derelict (or delinquent) in his duty"; "neglectful of his duties"; "remiss of you not to pay your bills"
- synonyms: delinquent, neglectful, remiss
- In deplorable condition.
- usage: "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
- synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down
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