neglect
Meaning of neglect
noun
- The act of neglecting.
- The state of being neglected.
- Habitual lack of care.
- To fail to care for or attend to something.
to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts
- To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
to neglect strangers
- To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
Information about neglect
- The plural form of neglect is: neglects.
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Hyphenation of neglect
ne-glect
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- neglect is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
neglect synonyms
Meaning disregard:
Meaning disuse:
Meaning negligence:
negligence, neglectfulness, carelessness, nonperformance
Meaning pretermit:
pretermit, omit, drop, miss, overlook, overleap
Meaning fail:
Meaning ignore:
Meaning :
neglect antonyms
Meaning :
consideration, notice, regard, care, mind, reck, consider
Translation of neglect
- French: négliger, délaisser
- Spanish: desatender
- Italian: ignorare
Words that rhyme with neglect
lect, dialect, subdialect, transdialect, coelect, deselect, elect, nonelect, preelect, prelect, preselect, reelect, reselect, select, superselect, ultraselect, unelect, unselect, vadelect, circumflect, deflect, exflect, flect, genuflect, inflect, interreflect, misreflect, redeflect, reflect, overneglect, preneglect, reneglect, basilect, predilect, Collect, Recollect, allect, collect, illect, intellect, misrecollect, precollect, recollect, acrolect, grapholect, ideolect, idiolect, sociolect, topolect, cryptolect
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