DERELICT • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Derelict

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/dˈɛrəlˌɪkt/ Listen

adjective

Derelict adj.

Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands. "The affections which these exposed or derelict children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion."

Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful. "They easily prevailed, so as to seize upon the vacant, unoccupied, and derelict minds of his (Chatham's) friends; and instantly they turned the vessel wholly out of the course of his policy." "A government which is either unable or unwilling to redress such wrongs is derelict to its highest duties."

noun

Derelict n. (Law)

(a)

A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.

(b)

A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use.

See images of 'Derelict'

Etymology of 'Derelict'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Derelict" Quotes from Famous Books

... From the derelict barque of a sun gone dark, Adrift on our fair ship's path, A beacon star shall guide us afar, And ...

— Poems of Experience • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... her stirring words to enlist the enthusiasm of the company concerning the economic change which the railways were to bring to Wales. Derelict acres were to be brought into cultivation; "the very central town of the ancient Principality," in which that ceremony was taking place, was to become the capital of a new prosperity, and as for Mr. Whalley, were not that day's proceedings "a chapter more honourable than any wreath ...

— The Story of the Cambrian - A Biography of a Railway • C. P. Gasquoine

... thought of Europe, which it maintained until the new learning of the Renaissance (16th century), together with its own dogmatic conservatism, left it hopelessly stuck in the "Sorbonnian bog" of derelict scholastic theology; became an object of satiric attacks by Boileau, Voltaire, and others, and was suppressed in 1789 at the outburst of the Revolution; was revived by Napoleon in 1808; is at present the seat of the Academie Universitaire ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... by society to do a certain specific work,—to exercise a certain specific function in maintaining the life and advancing the welfare of society. The educational system which does not recognize that this fact entails upon it an ethical responsibility is derelict and a defaulter. It is not doing what it was called into existence to do, and what it pretends to do. Hence the entire structure of the school in general and its concrete workings in particular need to be considered from time to time with reference to the social ...

— Moral Principles in Education • John Dewey

... intervals as he had moaned when the great ship sank. It was not until the sun rose over the long swell that we slept for an hour or more; and after sleep we were both calmer, looking for ships with much expectation, and that longing which the derelict only may know. The Captain was then very quiet, and he gazed often at me with the expression I had seen on his face when he saved me ...

— The Iron Pirate - A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea • Max Pemberton

More quotes...