- a way of behaving that is not sensible and shows that you do not care about the possible results of your actions or what other people think
- He spent money with careless abandon.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French abandoner, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to, at’) + bandon ‘control’ (related to ban). The original sense was ‘bring under control’, later ‘give in to the control of, surrender to’ (sense (5)).
Idioms
See abandon in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarywith gay abandon
- without thinking about the results or effects of a particular action
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