cancelled

Cancelled means called off — it is not happening, and no new date has been given. The train, the match, the appointment you had waited three weeks for.

The word does a great deal of work in travel and in diaries: a cancelled flight, a cancelled meeting, a cancelled order. Cancel is the verb behind it, and you cancel a subscription, a card or a plan. Watch the spelling, because British English doubles the l in cancelled while American English writes canceled with one. Recent years have added a new sense, in which a person is said to be cancelled when the public turns on them and withdraws its support.