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neglect::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | carelessness, negligence, nonperformance |
| Type of | nonaccomplishment, nonachievement |
| Has types | dereliction, neglect of duty, dodging, escape, evasion, concurrent negligence, contributory negligence, culpable negligence, criminal negligence, comparative negligence |
neglect::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fail |
| Has types | choke, strike out, muff, miss, lose track, default on, default |
neglect::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | neglectfulness, negligence |
| Type of | carelessness, sloppiness |
| Has types | remissness, slackness, willful neglect, laxness, laxity, dereliction, delinquency |
neglect::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | disuse |
| Type of | decline, declination |
| Has types | omission |
the house was in a terrible state of neglect.
neglect::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | disregard |
| Type of | mistreatment |
| Has types | despite |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | disregard |
| Type of | inattention |
| Has types | omission |
Examples of neglect
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While you're being careful about your children, don't neglect your pet's health.
From the abcnews.go.com
In Flagler County, she is charged with organized fraud and felony child neglect.
From the news-journalonline.com
She was charged with incompetence, neglect of duty, intemperance and immorality.
From the post-gazette.com
Economists know this at some level, but they largely neglect it in their models.
From the theatlantic.com
Neglect from fathers, though not mothers, also correlated with less grey matter.
From the newscientist.com
It must take the Barry-Beirut look alike gold medal for local authority neglect.
From the barryanddistrictnews.co.uk
Recent, highly publicized cases of child medical neglect highlight this paradox.
From the newsweek.com
Yet supporters say the programs have languished through years of fiscal neglect.
From the washingtonpost.com
The department also alleged some children experienced physical abuse or neglect.
From the sltrib.com
- Disregard: lack of attention and due care
- Leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
- Fail: 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"
- The state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect"
- Fail to attend to; "he neglects his children"
- Give little or no attention to; "Disregard the errors"
- Neglect is a passive form of abuse in which the perpetrator is responsible to provide care for a victim who is unable to care for oneself, but fails to provide adequate care to meet the victim's needs, thereby resulting in the victim's demise.
- In English law, neglect is a term of art, identical to the, now deprecated, expression lack of care and different from the concept of negligence. Its sole function is to qualify a verdict returned at an inquest by finding that it was a factor that contributed to a death.
- The act of neglecting; The state of being neglected; Habitual lack of care; To disregard or pay little attention to something; To fail to care for, or attend to something; To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness
