Words and phrases that have a meaning related to neglect: (180 results)
Antonyms:
attend to, take to heart
Often used in the same context:
willful neglect, cruelty, malnourishment, abuse, neglectful, maltreatment, mistreatment, mismanagement, abandonment, negligence, inattention, sexual abuse, deprivation, inaction, incompetence, indifference, malnutrition, dereliction, uncared, pauperism, maladministration, culpable negligence, starvation, depravation, nonfeasance, dilapidation, marginalization, caretakers, impoverishment, undernourishment, squalor, misrule, malnourished, enfeeblement, decay, callousness, vandalism, disrepair, child, welfare, underdevelopment, insensitivity, emaciation, carelessness, overfeeding, apathy, malfeasance, incompetency, endangerment, criminal negligence, misgovernance, care, uncleanliness, incapacity, underinvestment, failure, underfed, inefficiency, ignorance, foeticide, misgovernment, negligent, laziness, willful, disfiguration, strangulation, injustice, grandparental, unkindness, privation, sexual assault, overprotection, backwardness, thoughtlessness, bedsore, abusiveness, filicide, irresponsibility, exploitation, misapplication, harassment, underachievement, misbehavior, juvenile delinquency, despoliation, maladjustment, victimization, misfeasance, inadequate, debility, mendicancy, inefficacy, pauperization, shortsightedness, oppression, dehumanisation, irresponsive, inconsideration, homelessness, disfigures, brutality, chid, unwillingness, mishandling, slackness, want, disparagement, inactivity, misuse, misrepresentation, disobedience, disregard, forgetfulness, negligible, appreciable, frictional, allowable, eddy, radiative, instantaneous, ohmic, permissible, interfacial, leakage, maximum, advective, ambient, atmospheric, calculated, electromotive, load, osmotic
More specific:
delinquency, dodging, escape, evasion, forget, jump, laxity, laxness, miss, muff, neglect of duty, omission, pass over, remissness, skip, skip over, slack
Appears in the definition of:
dilapidate, leave, negligent, omission, out of practicep, permissive waste, rusty, skip, slack, unsocial, waste, willful neglect
More general:
decline, disesteem, disrespect, nonaccomplishment, nonachievement
Synonyms:
Also try:cold-shoulder, disuse, drop, fail, ignore, leave out, neglectfulness, nonperformance, omit, overleap, overlook, slight
— Nouns for neglect: friction, losses, resistance, effects, weight, damping, fringing, loss, effect, nothing, leakage, more...
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