deserted

de-ser-ted · adjective

imported

Definitions

adjective

  1. 1.

    (Of a place) empty of people; abandoned.

  2. 2.

    (Of a person) abandoned by someone who should have stayed.

  3. 3.

    Past tense and past participle of the verb desert (to abandon).

Related words

Antonyms: bustling, crowded, inhabited, populated
See also: abandoned, desert, empty
Synonyms: abandoned, empty, forsaken, uninhabited, vacant

Etymology

Past participle of desert (verb), from Latin desertus, past participle of deserere meaning "to abandon, forsake."