Left Behind

Noun

Meaning

Left Behind (plural Left Behinds)

A usually socially conservative member of the working class whose income is stagnating or falling in purchasing power.

Alternative form of Left Behind

An item that was left behind when someone departed.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

left-behind

Synonyms

left away lost abandoned gone remainder forgotten neglected trailing deserted stranded obliterated outpace forsaken

Antonyms

led transmitted leaded aforesaid escorted routed
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Examples

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal. John Lennon

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. Willa Cather

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. David Ogden Stiers

He who doesn't look ahead gets left behind. Venezuelan Proverb

How great the grandfathers are, but how regretful what they left behind. Arabic Proverb

Journey and you will find replacement to the ones left behind. Arabic Proverb

Close letter words and terms

left atrium of the heart left back left bank left boundary left bower left bracket