The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word DESOLATE , but the solution may also be FORSAKEN which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Abandoned crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| DESOLATE | 18 % | 8 |
| FORSAKEN | 18 % | 8 |
| DERELICT | 13 % | 8 |
| DESERTED | 11 % | 8 |
| LORN | 8 % | 4 |
| ALONE | 5 % | 5 |
| LONE | 5 % | 4 |
| OBSOLETE | 3 % | 8 |
| CASTADRIFT | 3 % | 10 |
| LEFTBEHIND | 3 % | 10 |
| OUTINTHECOLD | 3 % | 12 |
| BEHIND | 3 % | 6 |
| LEFTOUTINTHECOLD | 3 % | 16 |
| CASTOFF | 3 % | 7 |
| LEFT | 3 % | 4 |
Why may FORSAKEN be the right solution?
"Forsaken" means abandoned or deserted, which makes it a suitable answer for the clue "Abandoned".
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Abandoned
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- forsaken
- deserted
- uninhibited
- uninhabited
- failed
- destitute
- desolate
- neglected
- lost
- neglect
- disused
- derelict
Crossword Answer definitions
DESOLATE verb- To deprive of inhabitants.
- To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
- To abandon or forsake something.
- To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
- Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
- Barren and lifeless.
- Made unfit for habitation or use because of neglect, destruction etc.
- Dismal or dreary.
- Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result DESOLATE
- Brokenhearted
- Pretty bleak
- Barren
- Forsaken
- Lonely
- Like ghost towns
- Bleak
- Barren, as a landscape
- Uninhabited
- Descriptive of a ghost town.
More clues leading to the result FORSAKEN
- "... why hast thou ___ me?"
- Left in the lurch
- Abandoned
- Deserted
- Deserted.
- Desolate.
- Lovelorn.
- Left high and dry
- Derelict
- Like a foundling
More clues leading to the result DERELICT
- Abandoned
- Delinquent
- Skid Row bum
- Vagrant
- Remiss
- Neglectful of duty,
- Unfaithful or neglectful.
- Neglectful of duty.
- Unfaithful.
- Remiss.
More clues leading to the result DESERTED
- Left behind
- Like Chernobyl
- Like a ghost town
- Ran out on
- Left
- Left in the lurch
- Like ghost towns
- Ran away.
- Like Goldsmith's "Village.”
- Forsook.
More clues leading to the result LORN
- Bereft
- Forsaken
- Desolate
- Sad ending for love
- Bereft, old-style
- "... where was __ Urania / When Adonais died?": Shelley
- Forsaken.
- Without kindred or friends.
- Without kindred.
- Abandoned.
More clues leading to the result ALONE
- Exclusively
- Garbo-like
- In bad company, according to Bierce
- Peerlessly
- Single-handedly
- Solitary
- Solo
- Stag
- Unaccompanied
- Unassisted
More clues leading to the result LONE
- "The __ Eagle" (Lindbergh)
- Isolated
- Masked ranger
- Solo
- "The __ Eagle"
- Ranger?
- Situated by itself
- Solitary
- Kind of ranger
- Like a memorable ranger
More clues leading to the result OBSOLETE
- Like a Commodore 64
- Out-of-date
- Outmoded
- No longer in use
- No longer used
- Horse-and-buggy
- Unemployed?
- Like car carburetors, for the most part
- Like iceboxes
- Dated
More clues leading to the result CASTADRIFT
More clues leading to the result LEFTBEHIND
More clues leading to the result OUTINTHECOLD
More clues leading to the result BEHIND
- At the rear
- With 38 and 35 Across, hidden
- Losing
- Trailing
- Lagging
- After
- In support of
- Running late
- Supporting
- In arrears
More clues leading to the result LEFTOUTINTHECOLD
More clues leading to the result CASTOFF
- Discard
- Throw away
- Discarded
- Discarded one.
- Abandoned.
- Loosed from a mooring.
- Knitting term.
- Reject
- Hand-me-down
- Thrown away