neglect (redirected from neglects)

ne·glect  (n-glkt)

tr.v. ne·glect·ed, ne·glect·ing, ne·glects

1. To pay little or no attention to; fail to heed; disregard: neglected their warnings.

2. To fail to care for or attend to properly: neglects her appearance.

3. To fail to do or carry out, as through carelessness or oversight: neglected to return the call.

n.

1. The act or an instance of neglecting something.

2. The state of being neglected.

3. Habitual lack of care.

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[Latin neglegere, neglct- : neg-, not; see ne in Indo-European roots + legere, to choose, pick up; see leg- in Indo-European roots.]

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ne·glecter n.

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neglect

Verb

1. to fail to give due care or attention to: she had neglected her child

2. to fail (to do something) through carelessness: he neglected to greet his guests

3. to disregard: he neglected his duty

Noun

1. lack of due care or attention: the city had a look of shabbiness and neglect

2. the state of being neglected [Latin neglegere]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	neglect - lack of attention and due care disregard inattention - lack of attention omission - 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" disuse 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 attention disregard mistreatment - 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 concern neglectfulness, negligence carelessness, sloppiness - 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" laxness, remissness, laxity, slackness - the quality of being lax and neglectful
	5.	neglect - failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances negligence, nonperformance, carelessness nonaccomplishment, nonachievement - an act that does not achieve its intended goal dereliction - willful negligence comparative 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) neglect of duty - (law) breach of a duty dodging, escape, evasion - 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" leave out, omit, pretermit, overleap, overlook, miss, drop forget - forget to do something; "Don't forget to call the chairman of the board to the meeting!" pass over, skip, skip over, jump - bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible" attend to, take to heart - get down to; pay attention to; take seriously; "Attend to your duties, please"
	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" fail lose track - fail to keep informed or aware; "She has so many books, she just lost track and cannot find this volume" strike out - put out or be put out by a strikeout; "Oral struck out three batters to close the inning" default, default on - fail to pay up 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" disregard, ignore pretermit - disregard intentionally or let pass

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neglect

verb 1. disregard, ignore, leave alone, turn your back on, fail to look after << OPPOSITE look after

verb 2. shirk, forget, overlook, omit, evade, pass over, skimp, procrastinate over, let slide, be remiss in or about

verb 3. fail, forget, omit

noun 4. negligence, inattention, unconcern << OPPOSITE care

noun 5. shirking, failure, oversight, carelessness, dereliction, forgetfulness, slackness, laxity, laxness, slovenliness, remissness

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In artillery and naval gunfire support, a report to the observer/spotter to indicate that the last round(s) was fired with incorrect data and that the round(s) will be fired again using correct data.

Translations

neglect [nɪˈglɛkt] vt [+ one's duty] → faltar a, no cumplir con [+ child]; descuidar, desatender

n (state) → abandono;

(personal) → dejadez f [of duty] → incumplimiento;

to neglect to do sth → olvidarse de hacer algo

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neglect [nɪˈglɛkt] vt → négliger [+ garden]; ne pas entretenir [+ duty]; manquer à

n [of person, duty, garden] → le fait de négliger;

(state of) neglect → abandon m;

to neglect to do sth → négliger or omettre de faire qch;

to neglect one's appearance → se négliger

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neglect [nɪˈglɛkt] vt → vernachlässigen;

(writer, artist) → unterschätzen

n → Vernachlässigung f

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neglect [nɪˈglɛkt] vt → trascurare

n [of person, duty] → negligenza;

state of neglect → stato di abbandono;

to neglect to do sth → trascurare or tralasciare di fare qc