| Noun | 1. | neglect - lack of attention and due careomission - neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something | |
| 2. | neglect - the state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect"declination, decline - a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state omission - something that has been omitted; "she searched the table for omissions" | |
| 3. | neglect - willful lack of care and attentionmistreatment - the practice of treating (someone or something) badly; "he should be punished for his mistreatment of his mother" despite - contemptuous disregard; "she wanted neither favor nor despite" | |
| 4. | neglect - the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concerncarelessness - the quality of not being careful or taking pains dereliction, willful neglect, delinquency - a tendency to be negligent and uncaring; "he inherited his delinquency from his father"; "his derelictions were not really intended as crimes"; "his adolescent protest consisted of willful neglect of all his responsibilities" | |
| 5. | neglect - failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstancescomparative negligence - (law) negligence allocated between the plaintiff and the defendant with a corresponding reduction in damages paid to the plaintiff concurrent negligence - (law) negligence of two of more persons acting independently; the plaintiff may sue both together or separately contributory negligence - (law) behavior by the plaintiff that contributes to the harm resulting from the defendant's negligence; in common law any degree of contributory negligence would bar the plaintiff from collecting damages criminal negligence, culpable negligence - (law) recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences) dodging, evasion, escape - nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive" | |
| Verb | 1. | neglect - leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"forget - forget to do something; "Don't forget to call the chairman of the board to the meeting!" | |
| 2. | neglect - 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"strike out - put out or be put out by a strikeout; "Oral struck out three batters to close the inning" choke - fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation; "The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience" muff - fail to catch, as of a ball miss - fail to attend an event or activity; "I missed the concert"; "He missed school for a week" | |
| 3. | neglect - fail to attend to; "he neglects his children"slack - be inattentive to, or neglect; "He slacks his attention" | |
| 4. | neglect - give little or no attention to; "Disregard the errors"pretermit - disregard intentionally or let pass | |