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English noun: neglect | |||
| 1. | neglect (cognition) lack of attention and due care | ||
| Synonyms | disregard | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | inattention | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | omission | ||
| 2. | neglect (state) the state of something that has been unused and neglected | ||
| Samples | The house was in a terrible state of neglect. | ||
| Synonyms | disuse | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | declination, decline | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | omission | ||
| 3. | neglect (act) willful lack of care and attention | ||
| Synonyms | disregard | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | mistreatment | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | despite | ||
| 4. | neglect (attribute) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | ||
| Synonyms | neglectfulness, negligence | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | carelessness, sloppiness | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | delinquency, dereliction, laxity, laxness, remissness, slackness, willful neglect | ||
| 5. | neglect (act) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | ||
| Synonyms | carelessness, negligence, nonperformance | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | nonaccomplishment, nonachievement | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | comparative negligence, concurrent negligence, contributory negligence, criminal negligence, culpable negligence, dereliction, dodging, escape, evasion, neglect of duty | ||
English verb: neglect | |||
| 1. | neglect (cognition) leave undone or leave out | ||
| Samples | How could I miss that typo?. The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten. | ||
| Synonyms | drop, leave out, miss, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | forget, jump, pass over, skip, skip over | ||
| Antonyms | attend to, take to heart | ||
| 2. | neglect (social) fail to do something; leave something undone | ||
| Samples | 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 | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | choke, default, default on, lose track, miss, muff, strike out | ||
| 3. | neglect (cognition) fail to attend to | ||
| Samples | He neglects his children. | ||
| Examples | Sam cannot neglect Sue | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | slack | ||
| 4. | neglect (cognition) give little or no attention to | ||
| Samples | Disregard the errors. | ||
| Synonyms | disregard, ignore | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | pretermit | ||
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