Synonyms for dereliction
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Abandonment
abandonment, desertion, faithlessness, apostasy, unfaithfulness, renunciation, defection
2. Indiscretion
indiscretion, crime, delinquency, wrong, fault, misdeed, trespass, peccadillo
Definitions
- n. 1
Willful neglect of one's duty.
What he did was a terrible dereliction of duty.
- n. 2
The act of abandoning something, or the state of being abandoned.
Related words
- Word family
- derelict
Forms
- Plural
- derelictions → abandonments, desertions, faithlessnesses, apostasies…
Example sentences
- abandonment Why does this fear of abandonment exist in my life?
- apostasy Tom's apostasy will not go unpunished.
- desertion Twenty six soldiers were executed for desertion.
- delinquency Recently juvenile delinquency has been on the rise.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| dereliction | steady | |
| abandonment | falling | |
| apostasy | rising | |
| desertion | falling | |
| faithlessness | rising | |
| delinquency | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- wrong1, crime1, fault1
- 7 letters
- failure2, neglect2, misdeed2
- 8 letters
- trespass2, apostasy
- 9 letters
- desertion3, defection3
- 10 letters
- peccadillo
- 11 letters
- abandonment4, delinquency4
- 12 letters
- renunciation5, indiscretion4
- 13 letters
- faithlessness
- 14 letters
- unfaithfulness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (failure2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- déréliction
- Español
- desamparo
- Deutsch
- Verlassenheit