Neglect is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for NEGLECT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to treat carelessly
• fail to care for properly
• not pay proper attention to; disregard
• fail to do something
• take no care of
• Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one\'s duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts.
• To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight; as, to neglect strangers.
• Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy.
• Omission if attention or civilities; slight; as, neglect of strangers.
• Habitual carelessness; negligence.
• The state of being disregarded, slighted, or neglected.
• leave undone or leave out
• fail to do something; leave something undone
• fail to attend to
• give little or no attention to
NOUN:
• the state of being uncared for
• the action of not taking proper care of someone or something
• failure to do something
• lack of attention and due care
• the state of something that has been unused and neglected
• willful lack of care and attention
• the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern
• failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
• neglecting or being neglected
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to fail to pay attention to

Words related to NEGLECT

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Words that contain NEGLECT

neglects11 neglected13 neglecter12 neglector12 neglecters13 neglectful16 neglecting14 neglection13 neglective16 neglectors13 neglectable16 neglections14 neglectfully21 neglectingly19 neglectedness17 neglectfulness20 neglectednesses19 neglectfulnesse21 neglectfulnesses22

How to use NEGLECT in a sentence

• He was a delicate, sensitive child, whose early life was saddened by the death of his mother and by his neglect at home.
• I dared do no more, and had to trust for the rest to their natural inclination to the neglect of duty.
• It is not wise to stop the education of a boy or a girl with the body, and to neglect the mind and the spirit.
• Sinclair himself, who dreaded the consequences which any appearance of neglect might have upon a heart so liable to droop as that of his gentle daughter.
• And probably her conscience, too, reproached her for the neglect of the good resolutions she formed while there.
• People who neglect their orchards can get neither pleasure nor profit from them, and such persons are not competent to sit in judgment upon the value of an apple tree.
• If we neglect a horse and allow his coat to become rough it is almost as bad as to neglect feeding him.
• Thus we buy the leaves of their tea-plant at a high rate and neglect herbs, the natives of our own soil, possessing perhaps equal virtues.
• But this cannot be properly regarded as a neglect of principle upon Mr.
• Only those who do not count will refuse to face the responsibility in all seriousness, or will fail to receive in the best spirit the timely reminder of past neglect.
• It is quite evident that I can have no authority over the hands if your son is to interfere when I am about to punish a slave for an act of gross disobedience and neglect.
• His mother, Joanna, died, crazed and of a broken heart, from the indifference, perfidy, and neglect of her husband, Philip, Archduke of Austria.
• Nor did the French ministry neglect any measure that might contribute to repair the damage which the kingdom had sustained in the course of the war.
• Certainly, certainly, neglect not the education of the children.
• The amount of illness caused by neglect of simple hygienic precautions and by indulgence in alcohol and opium is prodigious.
• The neglect or observance of one rule carries with it, to some extent, the neglect or observance of other rules.
• We make engagements in neglect of the requirements of digestion.
• And that man, in his opinion, was not worthy the name of pastor who could neglect the individual requirements of the soul.
• Ignorance, neglect of religion, and corruption of manners followed, and from the eighth to the twelfth century there was a noted falling off in the number of Irish scholars.
• That would be most foolish, for all of us must needs depend upon these five senses in our everyday affairs, and would soon come to grief were we to neglect their reports.
• They did not therefore, sue for peace, but resolved to neglect no measures to subdue and conquer them.
• And let me tell you, my dear young man, there is more crime than you imagine in the neglect of these fellows.
• It had fallen something into neglect and ruin during the days of the civil wars, and had been battered about in some of the struggles that had raged round Chad.

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