Usually means: Abandoned, neglected, in disrepair condition.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. derelict: Merriam-Webster
  2. derelict: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. derelict: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. derelict: Collins English Dictionary
  5. derelict: Vocabulary.com
  6. Derelict, derelict: Wordnik
  7. derelict: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. derelict: Wiktionary
  9. derelict: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. derelict: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. derelict: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Derelict, derelict: Dictionary.com
  13. derelict (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. derelict: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Derelict (film), Derelict (maritime), Derelict, The Derelict (Hodgson), The Derelict (short story): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Derelict: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. derelict: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. derelict: Rhymezone
  19. derelict: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. derelict: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. derelict: FreeDictionary.org
  22. derelict: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. derelict: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. derelict: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. derelict: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. derelict: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. derelict: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. derelict: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. derelict: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. derelict: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Derelict: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Given up by the guardian or owner; abandoned, forsaken.
adjective:  (specifically) Of a ship: abandoned at sea; of a spacecraft: abandoned in outer space.
adjective:  (by extension) Of property: in a poor state due to abandonment or neglect; dilapidated, neglected.
adjective:  (figurative) Adrift, lost.
adjective:  (chiefly US) Negligent in performing a duty; careless.
noun:  (uncountable) Property abandoned by its former guardian or owner; (countable) an item of such property.
noun:  (uncountable, specifically, law) Property abandoned at sea with no hope of recovery and no expectation of being returned to its owner; (countable) an item of such property, especially a ship.
noun:  (countable, dated) An abandoned or forsaken person; an outcast, a waif.
noun:  (countable, by extension, derogatory) A homeless or jobless person; a vagrant; also, a person who is (perceived as) negligent in their hygiene and personal affairs.
noun:  (countable, chiefly US) A person who is negligent in performing a duty.
verb:  (transitive) To abandon or forsake (someone or something).
verb:  (intransitive) To neglect a duty.

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