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shipwrecked

Adjective
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Stranded or destroyed as a result of a shipwreck; metaphorically used in poetry for lives ruined by tragic circumstance.

Detailed Definition
Shipwrecked describes a person or vessel that has been wrecked at sea and left in danger or stranded. Longfellow uses it figuratively to suggest a person who is lost, battered by life, and in need of hope.
Example
Example in poetry:
“A forlorn and shipwrecked brother” turns shipwrecked into an emotional as well as literal adjective; Shakespeare’s Viola survives a shipwreck in Twelfth Night; “Shipwrecked sailors watched the shore vanish in fog” uses the literal sense; Contemporary-style example: “Shipwrecked by grief, she drifted through the crowded station”
Additional Notes
The word "shipwrecked" is specific to sea disaster and may need explanation in the figurative context of "A forlorn and shipwrecked brother."; Found in the poem, A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Also Known As
wrecked marooned stranded lost
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