neglect

Nouns

  • (n) lack of attention and due care disregard,
  • (n) the state of something that has been unused and neglected
    • the house was in a terrible state of neglect
    disuse,
  • (n) willful lack of care and attention disregard,
  • (n) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern neglectfulness, negligence,
  • (n) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances negligence, nonperformance, carelessness,

Verbs

  • (v) leave undone or leave out
    • How could I miss that typo?
    • The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten
    leave out, omit, pretermit, overleap, overlook, miss, drop,
  • (v) fail to do something; leave something undone
    • She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib
    • The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account
    fail,
  • (v) fail to attend to
    • he neglects his children
  • (v) give little or no attention to
    • Disregard the errors
    disregard, ignore,

Synonyms

disregard leave out omit pretermit overleap overlook miss drop disuse fail neglectfulness negligence ignore nonperformance carelessness

Antonyms

attend to take to heart

Words of close approximity

neglected neglecter neglectful neglectfully neglectfulness neglect of duty