derelict

Adjective

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

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

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

• 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
    

Noun

• a ship abandoned on the high seas

• a person without a home, job, or property

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  bedraggled , broken-down , dilapidated , ramshackle , tatterdemalion , tumble-down , delinquent , neglectful , remiss , abandoned , deserted , creaky , decrepit , flea-bitten , run-down , woebegone , abandoned ship