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Synonyms for deserted
de·sert·ed

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Princeton's WordNet3.4 / 5 votes

  1. abandoned, derelict, desertedadjective

    forsaken by owner or inhabitants

    "weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse"

    Synonyms:
    abandoned, bedraggled, woebegone, tumble-down, derelict, remiss, run-down, delinquent, flea-bitten, creaky, ramshackle, decrepit, broken-down, tatterdemalion, dilapidated, neglectful

    Antonyms:
    inhabited

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. aboandoned

    has been left

    it was bad enough that i abandoned her

    Submitted by riyajonalgadda on May 19, 2020  
  2. desolate

    deserted means alone, or empty.

    the deserted mountain had been left alone for years.

    Submitted by anonymous on December 22, 2019  

Dictionary of English Synonymes3.0 / 2 votes

  1. desertedadjective

    Synonyms:
    forsaken, abandoned, relinquished, given up, cast off

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words4.3 / 4 votes

  1. desertedadjective

    Synonyms:
    forsaken, desolate, abandoned, derelict

PPDB, the paraphrase database3.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "deserted":

    abandoned, uninhabited

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Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#8576abandoned
#20573deserted
#21084delinquent
#44435derelict
#54532dilapidated
#57833uninhabited
#70794decrepit
#76852remiss
#98447ramshackle
#101223creaky
#120040neglectful
#154287bedraggled
#295809woebegone

How to use deserted in a sentence?

  1. Kosuke Motani:

    In order for them to attract foreign tourists, they need to have something very unique, it is very challenging for places that were deserted by Japanese people to attract foreign tourists.

  2. Guo Qiang:

    It really feels like a deserted city. It is completely different from the look of a usual Beijing.

  3. Ziyah Gafic:

    It was summer in Venice, and the place was fairly deserted and quiet, you can tell that very few people still live there.

  4. Luigi Barzini:

    They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

  5. Mark Woolhouse:

    Thankfully, although technically we've lifted restrictions, The UK looks a very different place than The UK did before the pandemic. My workplace is still practically deserted. It's quite clear that people are not behaving as they were before the pandemic, there's an awful lot of scope for people to change their behavior more to allow more transmission of the virus in the future. Whether they will, we don't know -- predicting people's behavior in the face of an unprecedented pandemic is a fool's game, really.


Translations for deserted

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  • مهجورة, مهجورArabic
  • verlassen, verwüstetGerman
  • desiertoSpanish
  • asumaton, autio, hylättyFinnish
  • uaigneach, aonaranachScottish Gaelic
  • वीरानHindi
  • sepiIndonesian
  • abbandonatoItalian
  • ಮರಳುಭೂಮಿಯKannada
  • desertusLatin
  • troosteloos, verlaten, ontredderd, desolaatDutch
  • deșert, abandonatRomanian
  • пустынный, оставленный, несчастный, заброшенный, захолустный, безлюдный, покинутый, осиротелыйRussian
  • வனாந்திரத்தில்Tamil
  • desertedTelugu
  • 废弃的Chinese

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