vanished
Left no trace
Vanished is the past tense of vanish—to disappear suddenly or completely.
Something that vanished is gone without explanation or trace: The ship vanished in the fog.
The word often carries mystery or finality: Her smile vanished, a vanished civilization.
As an adjective, it describes what once existed but no longer does: vanished hopes, vanished youth.
No longer present
- missingNot present, whereabouts unknown
- departedHaving left
- fadedLost original color
- evaporatedConverted to gas
dissolved · dissipated · dematerialized · vaporized · ghosted · spirited away · poof · thin air
Unable to navigate
- forgottenNo longer recalled
- bygoneOf earlier times
- defunctNo longer existing
- perishedCeased living violently
died out · no more · obsolete · antiquated · relic · remnant · vestige · trace
Utterly and completely destroyed
- effacedRemoved from visibility
- wipedCleaned by rubbing
- expungedOfficially removed completely
- deletedPermanently removed
annihilated · eradicated · eliminated · erased · removed · purged · scrubbed · blotted out
Cannot be accounted for
- unexplainedNot yet clarified
- enigmaticPuzzling and obscure
- bafflingImpossible to understand
- strangeUnusual or unfamiliar
eerie · supernatural · paranormal · abducted · spirited · Bermuda Triangle · Roanoke · Amelia Earhart
gone
No longer present
evaporated · dissolved · dissipated · dematerialized · vaporized · ghosted · spirited away · poof · thin air · without a trace
lost
Unable to navigate
perished · died out · no more · obsolete · antiquated · relic · remnant · vestige · trace · memory
obliterated
Utterly and completely destroyed
deleted · annihilated · eradicated · eliminated · erased · removed · purged · scrubbed · blotted out · written out
inexplicable
Cannot be accounted for
- unexplainedNot yet clarified
- enigmaticPuzzling and obscure
- bafflingImpossible to understand
strange · eerie · supernatural · paranormal · abducted · spirited · Bermuda Triangle · Roanoke · Amelia Earhart · missing persons
- disappearedgone, faded, dissolved, evaporated, fled
- missing personsmissing person, disappearance, missing children, missing child, abductees
- Missingmissing, lost, gone, absent, MIA
- extinctionmass extinction, dodo, extinct, extinction event, extinction rate
- absenceabsent, away, gone, missing, lack
- gonegone, absent, away, departed, missing
vanishedappeared
Became visible or present
materialized · emerged · visible · present · manifest
vanishedmaterialized
Became physically present
popped up · burst forth · appeared · sprang up · surfaced
- vanish into thin airDisappear completely and mysteriously
- vanishing actAbrupt, unexplained departure
- vanishing pointWhere parallels appear to meet
- vanishing creamCosmetic that disappears when applied
- vanishing culturesSocieties losing their ways
- vanishing gradientGradients approach zero through layers