CANCELLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cancelled mean? 

• CANCELLED (adjective)
  The adjective CANCELLED has 1 sense:

1. (of events) no longer planned or scheduled

  Familiarity information: CANCELLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANCELLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of events) no longer planned or scheduled

Synonyms:

cancelled; off

Context example:

the wedding is definitely off

 Context examples 

“We will not,” said Miss Lavinia, “enter on the past history of this matter. Our poor brother Francis's death has cancelled that.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

EXAMPLE(S): active, cancelled, pending, suspended, terminated, nullified

(Experimental Unit Status Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The Portuguese grocer refused him further credit, while the greengrocer, who was an American and proud of it, had called him a traitor to his country and refused further dealings with him—carrying his patriotism to such a degree that he cancelled Martin's account and forbade him ever to attempt to pay it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In her death she winged her way back to her calm untroubled youth, and cancelled all the rest.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I had a hope that this brisk treatment might freshen my wits a little; and I think it did them good, for I soon came to the conclusion that the first step I ought to take was, to try if my articles could be cancelled and the premium recovered.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then I saw, as though all the intervening time had been cancelled, and I were still standing in the doorway on the night of the departure, the expression of that night in the face of Mrs. Strong, as it confronted his.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)