Another word for neglect
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Verb
To refuse to pay attention to (a person); treat with contempt
- To ignore or snub (someone).
- To deliberately ignore.
- To do carelessly or poorly; neglect
- To make even or level.
- (Military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
- To disregard deliberately; pay no attention to; refuse to consider
- (Law) To reject (a bill of indictment) for lack of evidence
To fail to care for or give proper attention to
- To do carelessly or poorly; neglect
- To make even or level.
- (Military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
- To disregard deliberately; pay no attention to; refuse to consider
- (Law) To reject (a bill of indictment) for lack of evidence
To not do (something necessary)
- To fail or neglect to do (something):
- To fail to include; leave out
- To fail to do; neglect
- To become bankrupt
- To omit to perform (an expected duty, for example):
- To receive an academic grade below the acceptable minimum in (a course, for example):
- (Law) To fail to appear in court as a party to a case when summoned.
- (Computers) To revert to a default.
- To fail to do what is required.
See also:To avoid the fulfillment of
- To be or become slack; slacken
- To be careless or remiss in doing:
- In a slack manner:
- To avoid or neglect (a duty or responsibility).
- To neglect or evade work, duty, etc.
- To neglect or evade doing (something that should be done)
- To show no evidence of attention concerning (something):
- To pay little or no attention to
- To treat without due respect; slight
Noun
An act or instance of neglecting
- A deliberate discourtesy; a snub:
- The act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.
- A slighting or being slighted by pointedly indifferent, disrespectful, or supercilious treatment
- An unintentional, careless mistake or omission
- Supervision or management.
- An omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten.
- The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about; misregard.
- Lack of thoughtful attention or due regard.
- Lack of due regard or respect
Nonperformance of what ought to be done
- (Law) Failure to do what duty requires to be done
- Failure to perform an act that is an official, contractual, or professional duty.
- The state of having been omitted.
- The act or an instance of omitting.
- An omitting or being omitted; specif., failure to do as one should
- Nonperformance of what is requested or expected; omission:
- A cessation of proper functioning or performance:
- The condition or fact of being insufficient or falling short:
- (Law) A gaining of land by the permanent recession of the water line.
- Willful neglect, as of duty or principle.
- A neglect of, or failure in, duty; a being remiss
- Behavior, esp. by the young, that is antisocial or in violation of the law
- A debt or other financial obligation on which payment is overdue.
- Failure or neglect to do what duty or law requires
- (--- Computers) A particular setting or value for a variable that is assigned automatically by an operating system and remains in effect unless canceled or overridden by the operator:
- Failure to appear in court to defend or prosecute a case
- Failure to perform a task or fulfill an obligation, especially failure to meet a financial obligation:
See also:
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Another word for neglect
Noun
The act of showing indifference to a person
- (Uncountable) The state of being cool, as in chilly.
- (Slang, countable) The result or product of being cool, as in good or pleasing.
- (Countable) The result or product of being cool, as in chilly.
- Lack of concern, or worry
- Lack of interest; apathy; indifference
- (Nonstandard, obsolete) indifference or lack of concern.
- Lack of attention, notice, or regard.
- The state or character of being heedless; inattention; carelessness; thoughtlessness.
- The state or quality of being inadvertent; inadvertency; heedlessness; carelessness; negligence.
- An instance of this; oversight; mistake
- An effect or result of inattention; an oversight or mistake from negligence.
- An unintentional, careless mistake or omission
- Supervision or management.
- An omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten.
- The expression of such an attitude in behavior or speech; derision:
- Expression of this in words or manner
- Contempt or disdain felt toward a person or object considered despicable or unworthy:
- Lack of respect, esteem, or courteous regard.
- The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about; misregard.
- Lack of thoughtful attention or due regard.
- Lack of due regard or respect
- A deliberate discourtesy; a snub:
- The act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.
- A slighting or being slighted by pointedly indifferent, disrespectful, or supercilious treatment
See also:The act of neglecting duties or charges
- The characteristic of being neglectful.
- A state of abandonment or neglect.
- The act of abandoning something, or the state of being abandoned
- A neglect of, or failure in, duty; a being remiss
- An act or omission showing such lack of care.
- The state or quality of being negligent.
- (Law) Failure to use a reasonable amount of care when such failure results in injury or damage to another
See also:The result of neglecting
- A falling or slipping into a lower or worse condition, esp. for a short time
- The failure of a bequest or devise to take effect because of the death of the person who was to receive it
- A deterioration or decline:
- The failure of one or more competitors or teams to participate in a contest:
- (--- Computers) A particular setting or value for a variable that is assigned automatically by an operating system and remains in effect unless canceled or overridden by the operator:
- Failure to perform a task or fulfill an obligation, especially failure to meet a financial obligation:
- (Mathematics) A dynamical system that has a sensitive dependence on its initial conditions.
- (Math.) A pattern or state of order existing within apparent disorder, as in the irregularities of a coastline or a snowflake
- The disorder of formless matter and infinite space, supposed to have existed before the ordered universe
Verb
To treat with indifference
- To view with contempt; despise.
- (Chiefly Literary) To treat or think of with contempt; scorn
- To assume something to be true without verification or proof.
- (Idiomatic, especially of a person) To give little attention to or to underestimate the value of, to fail to appreciate.
- (Idiomatic) to ignore
- To stop bothering.
- To leave alone, let be; to stop bothering.
- To pass over. disregard, overlook
- To proceed past something
- To respond to a negative situation lightheartedly, as though it were a joke.
- (Idiomatic) To regard without due seriousness; to joke or disregard inappropriately.
- To regard or esteem too lightly
- To value below the real worth
- To have too little regard or esteem for.
- (Archaic) To push or drive away contemptuously with or as with the foot
- To refuse or reject with contempt or disdain; scorn
- To reject something contemptuously.
- To write off an expenditure for (a tangible asset) by prorating over a certain period, usually the estimated useful life of the asset.
- To make seem less important; belittle; disparage
- To think or speak of as being of little worth; belittle.
- To put out of one's mind
- To direct or allow to leave:
- To send away; cause or allow to leave
- (--- Obsolete) To meet or encounter (another) face to face.
- (Archaic) To come before; meet; face
- To insult openly or purposely; offend; slight
- To check or repulse
- To reject bluntly, often disdainfully; snub:
- To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
- To reject or refuse with derision:
- To consider or treat as contemptible or unworthy:
- To consider or reject (doing something) as beneath one's dignity:
- To regard or treat with haughty contempt:
- To regard or treat as unworthy or beneath one's dignity; specif., to refuse or reject with aloof contempt or scorn
- To consider or reject (doing something) as beneath oneself:
- (--- Informal) To disregard on purpose. Usually used in the imperative:
- To forget things; be forgetful
- To banish from one's thoughts:
- (Law) To reject (a bill of indictment) for lack of evidence
- To disregard deliberately; pay no attention to; refuse to consider
- To treat (someone) with discourteous reserve or inattention:
- To make even or level.
- To do carelessly or poorly; neglect
- To ignore deliberately or indulgently; disregard:
- To fail to notice or consider; miss:
- To ignore; neglect
See also:Antonyms:To fail to attend to responsibilities
- To disregard intentionally or allow to pass unnoticed or unmentioned.
- To let pass unnoticed; overlook
- To leave out or leave undone; neglect or omit
- To escape or avoid, especially by cleverness or deceit:
- To use cleverness or deceit in avoiding or escaping something.
- (Rare) To escape; get away
- (Gram.) To put at or near the end of the sentence
- To delay or put off an event, appointment etc.
- To cause or arrange for (an event) to take place at a time later than the time at which it was originally supposed to happen.
- To be or become slack; slacken
- To make looser or less taut:
- To be inactive or avoid work:
- To avoid or neglect (a duty or responsibility).
- To avoid work or duty.
- To neglect or evade doing (something that should be done)
- To deal with hastily, carelessly, or with poor material:
- To be stingy in or toward; specif., to make too small, too short, etc.
- To give or allow too little; be stingy
- (Music) To glide over (a series of notes) smoothly without a break.
- To pass over quickly and carelessly; make little of
- To talk about disparagingly or insultingly.
- (Intransitive) To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.
- To play or toy (with something)
- To talk or act jokingly, mockingly, etc.; deal lightly
- (Law) To reject (a bill of indictment) for lack of evidence
- To disregard deliberately; pay no attention to; refuse to consider
- To jump or leap lightly over
- To leap or jump lightly over:
- (Informal) To leave hurriedly, esp. under questionable circumstances; abscond
- To fail or forget to do, keep, have, be present at, etc.
- To fail to meet, reach, attain, catch, accomplish, see, hear, perceive, understand, etc.
- To overlook; let (an opportunity, etc.) go by
- (Of persons) To tolerate a violation of a norm from.
- (Of intangibles) To let go, allow, release, pass over without action.
- To postpone or delay needlessly.
- To put off doing (something unpleasant or burdensome) until a future time; esp., to postpone (such actions) habitually
- To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.
- To put off; postpone.
- To give in to the wish or judgment of another, as in showing respect; yield with courtesy (to)
- To put off to a future time; postpone; delay
- (--- Informal) To disregard on purpose. Usually used in the imperative:
- To forget things; be forgetful
- To banish from one's thoughts:
- To fail to do; neglect
- To fail or neglect to do (something):
- To let go
Antonyms:
Synonym Study
- Forget , in this connection, implies an intentional disregarding or omitting let's forget our differences
- Slight implies a disregarding or neglecting in an indifferent or disdainful way a critic who seems to slight younger writers
- Ignore suggests a deliberate disregarding, sometimes through stubborn refusal to face the facts but you ignore the necessity for action
- Disregard implies inattention or neglect, usually intentional to disregard someone's wishes
- Overlook suggests a failure to see or to take action, either inadvertently or indulgently I'll overlook your error this time
- Omit , in this connection, implies a neglecting through oversight, absorption, etc. I omitted to give him directions to the house
- Neglect implies a failure to carry out some expected or required action, either through carelessness or by intention I neglected to set the alarm
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