Word Meanings - NEGLIGENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized by negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order. "Be thou negligent of fame." Swift. He that thinks he can afford to be negligent

Additional info about word: NEGLIGENT

Apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized by negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order. "Be thou negligent of fame." Swift. He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. Rambler. Syn. -- Careles; heedless; neglectful; regardless; thoughtless; indifferent; inattentive; remiss.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NEGLIGENT)

• Remiss
• Slack
• careless
• negligent
• i attentive
• wanting
• flow
• slothful
• idle
• lax
• dilatory
• tardy
• remissful
• Slovenly
• Loose
• disorderly
• untidy
• unclean
• sluttish
• slatternly
• Supine
• Lazy
• indolent
• indifferent
• listless
• inactive
• inattentive
• sluggish
• otiose
• torpid

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of NEGLIGENT)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain

Related words: (words related to NEGLIGENT)

• REMISS
  Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.
• REMISSLY
  In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• UNCLEAN
  1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy. 2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Num. xix. 11. 3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate
• INDIFFERENTLY
  In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
• REMISSORY
  Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• SUPINE
  1. Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone. 2. Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined. If the vine On rising ground be placed, or hills supine. Dryden. 3. Negligent; heedless; indolent;
• REMISSIVE
  Remitting; forgiving; abating. Bp. Hacket.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• WANTWIT
  One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
• REMISSIBLE
  Capable of being remitted or forgiven. Feltham.
• WANTONNESS
  The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
• NEGLIGENTLY
  In a negligent manner.
• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• OTIOSE
  Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle. "Otiose assent." Paley. The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and unAlford.
• INATTENTIVE
  Not attentive; not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive habit. I. Watts. Syn. -- Careless; heedless; regardless; thoughtless; negligent; remiss; inadvertent.
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• FORSLACK
  To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.
• ANGWANTIBO
  A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
• AIR-SLACKED
  Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.
• RESUPINE
  Lying on the back; supine; hence, careless. Sir K. Digby. He spake, and, downward swayed, fell resupine, With his huge neck aslant. Cowper.
• UNFASTEN
  To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.
• UNSLACKED
  Not slacked; unslaked; as, unslacked lime.