neglect

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something.
2. (transitive) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
3. (transitive) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
4. (transitive) To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of neglecting.
2. (countable, uncountable) The state of being neglected.
3. (countable, uncountable) Habitual lack of care.

Synonyms

disregard

ignore

slight

negligence

overlook

omit

carelessness

abandon

inattention

fail

forget

omission

disdain

shun

alienate

default

avoid

dereliction

leave alone

delay

indifference

give up

distance oneself from

be careless

estrangement

eschew

leave as is

pay no attention to

pretermit

heedlessness

be indifferent

leave out

throw out

violate

desert

🏜️

careless

expel

leave behind

neglectfulness

procrastinate

drop

fire

🔥

disuse

be inattentive

despise

forsake

oversight

overleap

pass up

nonperformance

Translations

négliger

vernachlässigen

descuidar

trascurare

négligence

negligenciar

verwaarlozen

desatender

negligir

negligenza

verwaarlozing

αμελώ

παραμελώ

negligència

descuidar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/nɪˈɡlɛkt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: neclect

In summary

From Middle English neclect, from Latin neglēctus, perfect passive participle of neglegō (“make light of, disregard, not to pick up”), a variant of neclegō, itself from nec (“not”) + legō (“pick up, select”). Recorded since a. 1460, as noun since 1588.