a person without a home, job, or property

a ship abandoned on the high seas

[ Syn: abandoned ship ]

worn and broken down by hard use; a creaky shack; a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape; a flea-bitten sofa; a run-down neighborhood; a woebegone old shack

[ Syn: creaky , decrepit , flea-bitten , run-down , woebegone ]

forsaken by owner or inhabitants ; weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse

[ Syn: abandoned , deserted ]

failing in what duty requires; derelict (or delinquent) in his duty; neglectful of his duties; remiss of you not to pay your bills

[ Syn: delinquent , neglectful , remiss ]

in deplorable condition; a street of bedraggled tenements; a broken-down fence; a ramshackle old pier; a tumble-down shack

[ Syn: bedraggled , broken-down , dilapidated , ramshackle , tatterdemalion , tumble-down ]