neglect

neglect is a 7-letter English word with 15 senses as adverb, verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. adverb. Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts.
2. adverb. To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight; as, to neglect strangers.
3. verb. Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy.
4. verb. Omission if attention or civilities; slight; as, neglect of strangers.
5. verb. Habitual carelessness; negligence.
6. verb. The state of being disregarded, slighted, or neglected.
7. noun. willful lack of care and attention

   Synonyms: disregard

8. noun. failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances

   Synonyms: carelessness, negligence, nonperformance

9. noun. the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern

   Synonyms: neglectfulness, negligence

10. noun. lack of attention and due care

    Synonyms: disregard

11. noun. the state of something that has been unused and neglected

    "the house was in a terrible state of neglect"

    Synonyms: disuse

12. verb. leave undone or leave out

    "How could I miss that typo?"

    "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"

    Synonyms: drop, miss, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit

13. verb. fail to attend to

    "he neglects his children"

14. verb. give little or no attention to

    "Disregard the errors"

    Synonyms: disregard, ignore

15. verb. 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"

    Synonyms: fail

Synonyms

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

Common word forms

neglects, neglected, neglecter, neglectful, neglecting, neglectable

Words from these letters

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