neglect

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To fail to care for or attend to something.

   • to neglect duty or business;  to neglect to pay debts
   • I hope My absence doth neglect no great designs.
   • This, my long sufferance and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn, shall never taste.
2. 2

   To omit to notice

   To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.

   • to neglect strangers
3. 3

   To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.

   • A friend of mine who runs an intellectual magazine was grousing about his movie critic, complaining that though the fellow had liked The Godfather (page 58), he had neglected to label it clearly as a masterpiece.
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   1. 4

      To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting…

      To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy.

      • We can neglect this term, as it approaches zero in the limit anyway.
      • This problem says to neglect air resistance.
   2. 5

      The act of neglecting.

   3. 6

      The state of being neglected.

   4. 7

      Habitual lack of care.

The neighborhood

• synonymtake no notice of
• synonymignore
• synonymcarelessness
• synonymnegligence
• antonymcareantonym(s) of
• antonymmind
• antonymreck
• antonymconsiderantonym(s) of
• antonymnotice
• antonymregard
• antonympay attention
• antonymconsideration
• neighbornegligee
• neighbornegligent
• neighbornegligence