neglectful

neglectful

English

Alternative forms

• neglectfull (archaic)

Etymology

From neglect +‎ -ful.

Adjective

neglectful (comparative more neglectful, superlative most neglectful)

1. Tending to neglect; failing to take care of matters which require attention.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, pages 38–39:

     Neglectful of her fine voice, she was obviously attending more to her companions than to her own singing;...

   • 1891, Rudyard Kipling, "The Finest Story in the World":

     The Fates that are so careful to shut the doors of each successive life behind us had, in this case, been neglectful, and Charlie was looking, though that he did not know, where never man had been permitted to look with full knowledge since Time began.

   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 243a-b,

     That they were too neglectful of ordinary people like us and overlooked us.

Derived terms

• neglectfully
• neglectfulness

Translations

tending to neglect

Bulgarian: небрежен (bg) (nebrežen) Catalan: negligent (ca) Esperanto: neglektema (eo) Finnish: piittaamaton (fi), leväperäinen (fi), löyhäkätinen French: négligent (fr) Georgian: დაუდევარი (daudevari), უგულისყურო (ugulisq̇uro), ყურწაგდებული (q̇urc̣agdebuli), უყურადღებო (uq̇uradɣebo), უზრუნველი (uzrunveli), უდარდელი (udardeli) German: nachlässig (de) Irish: neamartach Italian: negligente (it) Malay: cuai, lalai (ms), alpa (ms), lepa Norwegian: Bokmål: forsømmelig, skjødesløs Polish: niedbały (pl) Portuguese: negligente (pt) Spanish: negligente (es)