marooned
Left without rescue
Marooned means stranded in an isolated place with no way to leave.
The word originally described the punishment of abandoning someone on a deserted island: The mutineers marooned their captain on a rocky shore.
Now it applies to anyone stuck somewhere involuntarily: We were marooned at the airport for twelve hours, marooned in a small town with no car.
Shipwrecked and stranded person
- adriftFloating without control
- deserted islandLandmass without inhabitants
- survivalRemaining alive against odds
- rescueSave from harm
Robinson Crusoe · SOS · signal fire · lifeboat · raft · flotsam · jetsam · shipwrecked
Completely abandoned or discarded
- left behindAbandoned or forgotten
- desertedLeft behind, uninhabited
- forgottenNo longer recalled
- neglectedNot given proper attention
isolated · cut off · helpless · alone · disowned · jilted · dumped · ditched
State of being alone
- seclusionVoluntary withdrawal from society
- lonelinessState of lacking companions
- remoteDistant or controller
- inaccessibleCannot be reached
incommunicado · cut-off · sequestered · detached · alienated · desolate · forlorn · withdrawn
castaway
Shipwrecked and stranded person
- adriftFloating without control
- deserted islandLandmass without inhabitants
- survivalRemaining alive against odds
Robinson Crusoe · rescue · SOS · signal fire · lifeboat · raft · flotsam · jetsam · shipwrecked · beached
forsaken
Completely abandoned or discarded
- left behindAbandoned or forgotten
- desertedLeft behind, uninhabited
- forgottenNo longer recalled
neglected · isolated · cut off · helpless · alone · disowned · jilted · dumped · ditched · discarded
solitude
State of being alone
- seclusionVoluntary withdrawal from society
- lonelinessState of lacking companions
- remoteDistant or controller
inaccessible · incommunicado · cut-off · sequestered · detached · alienated · desolate · forlorn · withdrawn · trapped
- survival storiesescape story, wilderness survival, shipwreck tales, shipwreck, sea survival
- Piratespirate, buccaneer, corsair, corsairs, privateers
- abandonmentabandon, forsake, desert, leave, neglect
- Caribbean piratespirates, buccaneers, Blackbeard, Henry Morgan, privateers
- CastawaysRobinson Crusoe, castaway, Gilligan, shipwreck, Ginger
- pirate talkahoy, arr, argh, aye, aye aye
maroonedaccompanied
Went along with someone
connected · surrounded · together · supported · cared for
maroonedfree
Without payment or restriction
mobile · liberated · untrapped · at liberty · free to go
- Maroon 5
- what a maroonSarcastic call-out of stupidity
- marooned sailorSeafarer abandoned on land