neglect

Meanings

• lack of attention and due care
• the state of something that has been unused and neglected
  • "the house was in a terrible state of neglect"
• 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
• leave undone or leave out
• fail to do something; leave something undone
• fail to attend to
  • "he neglects his children"
• give little or no attention to

Synonyms

carelessness, disregard, disuse, drop, fail, ignore, leave out, miss, neglectfulness, negligence, nonperformance, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit