Derelict - English meaning

noun

A person, typically a homeless one, who lives by asking for money or food.

Usage examples:

How many times have you been asked in the street for some money from a seemingly homeless person or…

verb

Reduce (someone) to poverty.

Usage examples:

Why should i beggar myself for you?

noun

A poor person who lives by asking others for money or food

adjective

In bad condition or not working

Usage examples:

A broken-down car

noun

A vagrant.

Usage examples:

Bums had been known to wander up to their door and ask for a sandwich

verb

Get by asking or begging.

Usage examples:

They tried to bum money off us

adjective

Of poor quality; bad or wrong.

Usage examples:

Not one bum note was played

adjective

Not giving sufficient attention or thought to avoiding harm or errors.

Usage examples:

She had been careless and had left the window unlocked

adjective

Not taking or showing enough care and attention

Usage examples:

My son's teacher says that his work is often rather careless., he made a careless remark (= one mad…

adjective

Relaxed, natural, and free from worry

adjective

Making a harsh, high-pitched sound when being moved or when pressure or weight is applied.

Usage examples:

He boards a creaking wooden boat

noun

Harsh, high-pitched noise made when something is being moved or when pressure or weight is applied to it.

Usage examples:

We could hear the creaking of the deteriorating wood

verb

(of an object or structure, typically a wooden one) make a harsh, high-pitched sound when being moved or when pressure or weight is applied.

Usage examples:

The stairs creaked as she went up them

adjective

Making or liable to make a creaking sound when being moved or when pressure is applied.

Usage examples:

I climbed the creaky stairs

adjective

Something that is creaky creaks

Usage examples:

A creaky hinge/chair/bed, creaky floorboards, the creaky legal system

adjective

Used to describe something that is old-fashioned and not now effective

Usage examples:

The creaky legal system

adjective

Worn out or ruined because of age or neglect.

Usage examples:

A row of decrepit houses

adjective

Weak and in poor condition, esp. from age or long use

Usage examples:

The town had two decrepit fire trucks that were constantly breaking down.

adjective

In very bad condition because of being old, or not having been cared for, or having been used a lot

Usage examples:

Most of the buildings were old and decrepit., a decrepit old man sat on a park bench.

adjective

(typically of a young person) tending to commit crime, particularly minor crime.

Usage examples:

Delinquent teenagers

noun

A delinquent person.

Usage examples:

Juvenile delinquents

adjective

Late in paying money owed

Usage examples:

She was delinquent in paying her taxes.

adjective

Becoming progressively worse.

Usage examples:

Deteriorating economic conditions

verb

Become progressively worse.

Usage examples:

Relations between the countries had deteriorated sharply

verb

Present participle of deteriorate

Usage examples:

She was taken into hospital last week when her condition suddenly deteriorated., the political situ…

adjective

(of a building or object) in a state of disrepair or ruin as a result of age or neglect.

Usage examples:

Old, dilapidated buildings

verb

Cause (something) to fall into disrepair or ruin.

Usage examples:

A ruined chappell, built by the spaniard, and dilapidated by the dutch

adjective

(esp. of a structure) in bad condition and needing repair

Usage examples:

We still use the dilapidated barn for storing tools.

noun

A person who sleeps rough; a tramp.

noun

Someone who has no home and no money

noun

A very lazy person

adjective

Having no luck, no money, and no opportunities

Usage examples:

A down-and-out loser, nobody loves you when you're down and out., i was never a down-and-out, but i…

noun

A person who is continually moving from place to place, without any fixed home or job.

Usage examples:

Her songs are peopled with drifters, ramblers, old lovers.

noun

A person who moves from one place to another or from one job to another without any real purpose

noun

Someone who does not have a permanent home or job and moves from one place to another or from one job to another

Usage examples:

Brian is a drifter who has no permanent address., apart from spells as a security guard, he was an …

noun

A homeless person; a tramp or vagrant.

Usage examples:

Cohen includes a category of songs about hoboes, tramps, vagabonds, etc. who populated the boxcars …

adjective

(of a person, attitude, or action) not showing a proper sense of responsibility.

Usage examples:

It would have been irresponsible just to drive on

adjective

Not thinking carefully enough or not caring about what might result from actions taken

Usage examples:

[ + to infinitive ] it would have been irresponsible to let claire drive home when she was so tired.

adjective

Not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful.

Usage examples:

Lax security arrangements at the airport

noun

Lacrosse.

Usage examples:

I wore pads and a helmet whenever i played lax

adjective

Lacking care, attention, or control; not severe or strong enough

Usage examples:

Security at the airport seemed lax., laxity in enforcing safety regulations can cost lives.

adjective

Given to begging.

Usage examples:

Possibly it was sheer vanity and love of easily-won applause that drove him to act out the role of …

noun

A beggar.

Usage examples:

I thought of dorothy wordsworth who coined the phrase, ‘the rant and cant of the staled beggar’, as…

noun

Someone, especially a member of a religious group, who lives by asking people they do not know for money

Usage examples:

She abandoned her job and her career, and lived as a homeless mendicant on the streets of philadelp…

idiom

An idle worthless person

noun

A person who is lazy and irresponsible.

Usage examples:

A bit of a ne'er-do-well whose only interests seemed to be cards and boozing

adjective

Lazy and irresponsible.

Usage examples:

His ne'er-do-well father walked out before he was born

adjective

Not giving proper care or attention to someone or something.

Usage examples:

You are being neglectful of our guests

adjective

Not giving enough care and attention to something or someone

Usage examples:

I'm sure my boss thinks i've been neglectful of my duties recently.

adjective

Failing to take proper care over something.

Usage examples:

The council had been negligent in its supervision of the children in care

adjective

Failing to be careful enough or to give enough attention to your responsibilities, esp. when this results in harm or loss to others

Usage examples:

She charged her landlord with negligence for not repairing leaks that ruined her rugs.

adjective

Not giving enough care or attention to someone or something that you are responsible for

Usage examples:

It was necessary to prove that the manager had been negligent., be negligent in (doing) sth the cou…

noun

A person who has been rejected or ostracized by their society or social group.

Usage examples:

She went from trusted pal to ostracized outcast overnight

adjective

(of a person) rejected or ostracized.

Usage examples:

They can be made to feel outcast and inadequate

noun

A person who is not accepted or has no place in society or in a particular group

Usage examples:

A social outcast

noun

An outcast.

Usage examples:

They were treated as social pariahs

noun

A person who is avoided or not accepted by a social group, esp. because he or she is not liked, respected, or trusted; an outcast

Usage examples:

Because of its poor human rights record, the country was treated as a pariah by other nations.

adjective

(especially of a house or vehicle) in a state of severe disrepair.

Usage examples:

A ramshackle cottage

adjective

Badly made and likely to break or fall down easily

Usage examples:

A ramshackle building with a sagging roof

adjective

Lacking care or attention to duty; negligent.

Usage examples:

It would be very remiss of me not to pass on that information

adjective

Not doing a duty carefully or well enough

Usage examples:

I would be remiss if i didn’t mention it.

adjective

(of a structure or piece of equipment) poorly made and likely to collapse.

Usage examples:

We went carefully up the rickety stairs

adjective

(of a building or place) reduced to a state of decay, collapse, or disintegration.

Usage examples:

A ruined castle

verb

Reduce (a building or place) to a state of decay, collapse, or disintegration.

Usage examples:

The castle was ruined when dynamite was used to demolish one of the corner towers

adjective

Not taut or held tightly in position; loose.

Usage examples:

A slack rope

noun

The part of a rope or line which is not held taut; the loose or unused part.

Usage examples:

I picked up the rod and wound in the slack

verb

Loosen (something, especially a rope).

Usage examples:

Slacking the outhaul allows you to adjust the sail

adjective

Characterized by a lack of care, thought, or organization.

Usage examples:

He'd caused many problems with his slipshod management

adjective

Showing lack of effort and attention

Usage examples:

Slipshod repairs

adjective

Careless and unsystematic; excessively casual.

Usage examples:

We gave away a goal through sloppy defending

adjective

Messy or lacking care or attention

Usage examples:

Sloppy clothes, a sloppy administrator, sloppy weather, her grandchildren nearly smothered her with…

adjective

Very wet or liquid, often in a way that is unpleasant

Usage examples:

The batter was a bit sloppy so i added some more flour., she covered his face with sloppy kisses.

verb

Walk heavily or noisily.

Usage examples:

He tramped about the room

noun

A person who travels from place to place on foot in search of work or as a vagrant or beggar.

Usage examples:

In this category fall some of the adaptive activities of psychotics, autists, pariahs, outcasts, va…

verb

To walk with heavy steps

Usage examples:

[ i ] i’ve been tramping through museums all day., tramps knew the houses where you got good food.,…

adjective

(of a building or other structure) falling or fallen into ruin; dilapidated.

Usage examples:

Tumbledown cottages

adjective

(of a building) in a bad condition, esp. in a state of decay

Usage examples:

They lived in a tumbledown cottage near the railroad tracks.

noun

A person who wanders from place to place without a home or job.

Usage examples:

Vagabond tales is loosely based around the adventures of a musical vagabond who travels around the …

adjective

Having no settled home.

Usage examples:

A vagabond poacher

verb

Wander about as or like a vagabond.

Usage examples:

He went vagabonding about the world

noun

A person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging.

Usage examples:

When stern bought his first camera in 1948, he wandered around the bowery in chinatown, photographi…

adjective

Relating to or living the life of a vagrant.

Usage examples:

Vagrant beggars

noun

A person who has no home or job and who moves from place to place

noun

A wasteful or good-for-nothing person.

Usage examples:

I have no intention of seeing my dues gambled away by your wastrel of a son

noun

A person who does nothing positive with their life, making no use of their abilities or the opportunities that are offered to them