neglect — OAT

neglect

verb

1 parents who have neglected their children:

fail to look after, fail to care for, fail to provide for, leave alone, abandon;

archaic forsake.

▷antonyms cherish, look after, care for.

2 he's been neglecting his work for the past couple of days:

pay little/no attention to, let slide, not attend to, be remiss about, be lax about, leave undone, lose sight of, skimp on, shirk, skip.

▷antonyms concentrate on.

3 neglect our advice at your peril!:

disregard, ignore, pay no attention to, take no notice of, pay no heed to, discount, set aside, overlook, turn a deaf ear to, throw to the winds;

disdain, pass over, pass by, scorn, slight, spurn, rebuff, turn one's back on.

▷antonyms attend (to), heed.

4 she's just irritable because I neglected to inform her that you were coming:

fail, omit, forget, not remember;

archaic pretermit.

▷antonyms remember.

noun

1 the whole place had a hopeless air of neglect:

disrepair, dilapidation, deterioration, shabbiness, disuse, abandonment;

rare desuetude.

2 her doctor had been guilty of serious neglect:

negligence, failure to take proper care, lack of proper care and attention, dereliction of duty, nonperformance/non-fulfillment of duty, failure to take proper action, remissness, neglectfulness, carelessness, heedlessness, lack of concern, unconcern, laxity, laxness, slackness, irresponsibility;

Scots Law culpa;

formal delinquency.

▷antonyms care.

3 the relative neglect of women in studies of redundancy:

disregard, ignoring, overlooking, failure to pay attention to, inattention to, indifference to, oversight, heedlessness;

disdaining, scorning, slighting, spurning, rebuff.

▷antonyms attention.