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neglect   (TTS Sound)

The noun neglect has 5 senses

• disregard, neglect -- (lack of attention and due care)


• neglect, disuse -- (the state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect")


• disregard, neglect -- (willful lack of care and attention)


• negligence, neglect, neglectfulness -- (the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern)


• negligence, carelessness, neglect, nonperformance -- (failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances)

The verb neglect has 4 senses

• neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out, overlook, overleap -- (leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten")


• fail, 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")


• neglect -- (fail to attend to; "he neglects his children")


• neglect, ignore, disregard -- (give little or no attention to; "Disregard the errors")