Definizione monolingua

derelict

derelict (plural derelicts)

1. Property abandoned by its former owner, especially, a ship abandoned at sea.
   • 1907, Robert W. Service, “The Cremation of Sam McGee”, in The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses:

     Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the ""Alice May"". / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; / Then ""Here"", said I, with a sudden cry, ""is my cre-ma-tor-eum.""

2. An abandoned or forsaken person; an outcast.
   • 1911 Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax” (Norton 2005, p.1364):

     A rather pathetic figure, the Lady Frances, a beautiful woman, still in fresh middle age, and yet, by a strange chance, the last derelict of what only twenty years ago was a goodly fleet.

3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A negligent person.

derelict (comparative more derelict, superlative most derelict)

1. Abandoned, forsaken; (of ship) abandoned at sea; dilapidated, neglected.

   There was a derelict ship on the island.

2. Negligent in performing a duty.

Definizione dizionario derelict

	abbandonato
	abandoned

	derelitto
	outcast

	negligente
	negligent

	oggetto abbandonato
	abandoned property

	persona negligente
	negligent person

	relitto
	abandoned ship

	relitto della società
	outcast

	rifiuto
	abandoned property

	trascurato
	negligent

Altri significati:

Abandoned, forsaken; (of ship) abandoned at sea; dilapidated, neglected.

A negligent person.

An abandoned or forsaken person; an outcast.

A person abandoned by society, esp. a person without a permanent home and means of support.

Negligent in performing a duty.

Property abandoned by its former owner, especially, a ship abandoned at sea.