derelict
adj.describing a building or piece of land that is in very bad condition because it has been ignored for a long time.
adj.in a state of advanced physical decay or neglect; abandoned by an owner or occupant. Often used to describe urban infrastructure or maritime vessels.
“The old factory has been derelict for over twenty years.”
“Local teenagers often hang out in the derelict warehouse at the edge of the industrial estate.”
“The city council is under increasing pressure to repurpose derelict properties in the downtown core to address the growing housing crisis.”
Typically used attributively before a noun or predicatively after a linking verb like 'remain' or 'stand'.
“Not so long ago, the first impression for visitors arriving by train to Bristol’s main railway station was a derelict building described by David Cameron as looking like the entrance to a war zone.”
“On 5 August, a piece of a derelict SpaceX rocket traveling at 5,400 miles an hour met with the moon and punched a fresh hole into it near Einstein Crater .”
PIE word *de The adjective and verb are a learned borrowing from Latin dērelictus (“(completely) abandoned, deserted, forsaken; discarded”), the perfect passive participle of dērelinquō (“to abandon, desert, forsake; to discard”), from dē- (prefix meaning ‘away from; completely, thoroughly’) + relinquō (“to abandon, desert, forsake, leave (behind); to depart (from); to give up, relinquish”) (from Proto-Italic wrelinkʷō, from wre (“again”) (whence Latin rē- (prefix meaning ‘again’)) + linkʷō (“to leave”) (whence linquō (“to forsake; depart from, leave, quit”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European leykʷ- (“to leave”))). Doublet of relict, relic, and relinquish. The noun is derived from the adjective.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.