forsaken
/fəˈseɪkən
/adjective
Abandoned or deserted: a journey into forgotten and forsaken places...
- He spends much of his time in some of the more life forsaken places on our planet.
- His father had been an embittered hired hand to a poor tenant farmer in the forsaken moorlands of Jutland.
- Now, we come to the most forsaken film of the year.
Derivatives
forsakenness
- Gregarious from the start, the only time he is alone is in his death, the awfulness of which is an enforced loneliness and forsakenness without any way of a transcendent escape.
- And for the most part societies and, indeed, entire cultures have disapproved of that kind of story which offers an unalleviated picture of human forsakenness.
- Into the dark and unfriendly ocean of forsakenness my spirit sank in despair as my shattered life lay before my eyes like a horror too incomprehensible to understand.