negligent

negligent

See also: négligent

English

Etymology

From Middle English necligent, negligent, from Old French negligent, from Latin negligēns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛɡ.lɪ.d͡ʒənt/

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Adjective

negligent (comparative more negligent, superlative most negligent)

1. Careless or inattentive.
2. (law) Culpable due to negligence.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:careless

Related terms

• negligence
• negligently

Translations

careless — see careless

culpable due to negligence

Azerbaijani: səhlənkar Catalan: negligent (ca) Czech: nedbalý Dutch: nalatig (nl) Finnish: piittaamaton (fi) French: négligent (fr) Galician: neglixente German: fahrlässig (de) Greek: αμελής (el) (amelís) Hungarian: gondatlan (hu) Italian: negligente (it) Kazakh: немқұрайлы (nemqūraily) Latin: neglegens Portuguese: negligente (pt) Romanian: neglijent (ro) Russian: хала́тный (ru) (xalátnyj) Spanish: negligente (es) Swedish: försumlig (sv) Tagalog: pabaya

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin negligentem. First attested in 1272.[1]

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /nə.ɡliˈʒent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /nə.ɡliˈʒen/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ne.ɡliˈd͡ʒent/

Adjective

negligent (masculine and feminine plural negligents)

1. negligent

Related terms

• negligència
• negligir

References

• “negligent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

1. “negligent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023

Further reading

• “negligent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “negligent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

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Latin

Verb

negligent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of negligō

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Romanian

Adjective

negligent m or n (feminine singular negligentă, masculine plural negligenți, feminine and neuter plural negligente)

1. Obsolete form of neglijent.

Declension

Declension of negligent

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	negligent		negligentă	negligenți	negligente
	definite	negligentul		negligenta	negligenții	negligentele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	negligent		negligente	negligenți	negligente
	definite	negligentului		negligentei	negligenților	negligentelor

References

• negligent in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN