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Defenition of the word neglect

    • Defenition of the word neglect

      • To fail to attend to.
      • lack of care and attention
      • lack of attention and due care
      • 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 to attend to; "he neglects his children"
      • the state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect"
      • give little attention or respect to
      • leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
      • failure to act
      • the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern
      • willful lack of care and attention
      • failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
      • give little or no attention to; "Disregard the errors"
      • the state of something that has been unused and neglected
      • leave undone or leave out
      • fail to attend to
      • give little or no attention to
      • fail to do something; leave something undone

    Synonyms for the word neglect

      • carelessness
      • cold-shoulder
      • disregard
      • disuse
      • drop
      • fail
      • ignore
      • leave out
      • miss
      • neglectfulness
      • negligence
      • nonperformance
      • omit
      • overleap
      • overlook
      • slight

    Hyponyms for the word neglect

      • choke
      • comparative negligence
      • concurrent negligence
      • contributory negligence
      • criminal negligence
      • culpable negligence
      • default
      • default on
      • delinquency
      • dereliction
      • despite
      • dodging
      • escape
      • evasion
      • forget
      • jump
      • laxity
      • laxness
      • lose track
      • miss
      • muff
      • neglect of duty
      • omission
      • pass over
      • pretermit
      • remissness
      • skip
      • skip over
      • slack
      • slackness
      • strike out
      • willful neglect

    Hypernyms for the word neglect

      • carelessness
      • declination
      • decline
      • disesteem
      • disrespect
      • inattention
      • mistreatment
      • nonaccomplishment
      • nonachievement
      • sloppiness

    Antonyms for the word neglect

      • attend to
      • take to heart

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