neglected

adjective

1 ASPCA officers found more than eighty neglected, underweight, and suffering animals:

uncared for, mistreated, abandoned, forsaken.

▷antonyms well cared for.

2 a neglected 16th-century cottage | the neglected garden behind Merrill's apartment:

run down, derelict, dilapidated, tumbledown, ramshackle, untended, unmaintained;

overgrown, uncultivated, unweeded, wild;

Australian, New Zealand, informal rumpty;

rare weedgrown.

▷antonyms neat, well tended.

3 a neglected masterpiece of seventeenth-century devotional prose:

disregarded, forgotten, overlooked, ignored, unrecognized, unnoticed, unsung, underestimated, undervalued, unappreciated, passed over, spurned;

out in the cold.