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abandonment
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forsaking |
| Synonyms: | dereliction, desertion, jettison, jilting |
| Main Entry: | abandonment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandon |
| Synonyms: | carelessness, lightheartedness, recklessness, unrestraint, wantonness, wildness |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | abandonment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Example Sentences
- In this slow-moving river port, signs of abandonment are everywhere.
- Including victims of bigotry, poverty, abandonment and political oppression.
- Another step on the politicization of academia and abandonment of the scientific value of skepticism in the pursuit of knowledge.
| Main Entry: | abnegation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | denial, renouncement of something |
| Synonyms: | abandonment, abstinence, eschewal, forbearance, giving up, nixing, refusal, rejection, relinquishment, renunciation, sacrifice, self-denial, stonewall, surrender, temperance |
| Antonyms: | acquiescence, admittance, surrender, yielding |
| Main Entry: | cancellation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | calling off; erasure |
| Synonyms: | abandoning, abandonment, abolishing, abolition, abrogation, annulment, canceling, deletion, dissolution, dissolving, elimination, invalidating, invalidation, nullification, overruling, quashing, recall, recalling, repeal, repudiation, retirement, retracting, retraction, reversal, reversing, revocation, revoking, undoing, withdrawing |
| Antonyms: | allowance, approval, arrangement, establishment, permission |
| Main Entry: | departure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leaving |
| Synonyms: | abandonment, adieu, bow out, congé, decampment, desertion, egress, egression, embarkation, emigration, escape, evacuation, exit, exodus, expatriation, farewell, flight, getaway, going, going away, goodbye*, hegira, migration, parting, passage, powder, quitting, recession, removal, retirement, retreat, sailing, separation, setting forth, setting out, stampede, start, takeoff, taking leave, taking off, vacation, vanishing act, walkout, withdrawal, withdrawing |
| Antonyms: | arrival, coming, entrance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | depravity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | corruption, immorality |
| Synonyms: | abandonment, baseness, contamination, criminality, debasement, debauchery, degeneracy, degradation, depravation, evil, iniquity, lewdness, licentiousness, perversion, profligacy, sensuality, sinfulness, vice, viciousness, vitiation, wickedness |
| Antonyms: | good, honor, justice, morality, nobility, purity, uprightness, virtue |
| Main Entry: | dissipation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wantonness |
| Synonyms: | abandonment, debauchery, dissoluteness, dissolution, drunkenness, evil, excess, extravagance, free-living, high-living, indulgence, intemperance, lavishness, life in the fast lane, prodigality, profligacy, self-gratification, squandering, to hell in handbasket, waste |
| Antonyms: | unselfishness, virtue |
| Main Entry: | fanaticism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overenthusiasm |
| Synonyms: | abandonment, arbitrariness, bias, bigotry, contumacy, dedication, devotion, dogma, enthusiasm, extremism, faction, frenzy, hatred, illiberality, immoderation, incorrigibility, infatuation, injustice, intolerance, madness, monomania, obsessiveness, obstinacy, partiality, partisanship, passion, prejudice, rage, single-mindedness, stubbornness, superstition, tenacity, transport, unfairness, unreasonableness, unruliness, violence, willfulness, zeal, zealotry |
| Antonyms: | disinterest, impartiality, unenthusiasm |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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