marooned

1. 1.

   cut off or left behind

   “an isolated pawn”

   “several stranded fish in a tide pool”

   “travelers marooned by the blizzard”

   Synonymsisolatedstranded

   Similarunaccompanied

Other forms of marooned

comparative

maroonedder·

superlative

marooneddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about marooned

What does marooned mean?

marooned means "cut off or left behind".

How many syllables are in marooned?

marooned has 2 syllables: maroo-ned. The stress falls on "ned". In IPA it is /mɚˈund/.

What is another word for marooned?

Close synonyms include isolated, stranded. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is marooned a common word?

marooned is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.