Meaning

4 senses
  1. (transitive)To fail to care for or attend to something.

    to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts

    vernachlässigen, verabsäumen, versäumen

    забрасыватьzabrasyvatʹ, запускатьzapuskatʹ

    зане́дбуватиzanédbuvaty, занедба́тиzanedbáty, занеха́юватиzanexájuvaty

    fail to attend to

  2. (transitive)To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.

    to neglect strangers

    missachten, nicht beachten, ignorieren

    пренебрега́тьprenebregátʹ

  3. (transitive)To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.

    versäumen, verfehlen, unterlassen

    упуска́тьupuskátʹ

  4. (transitive)To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy.

    We can neglect this term, as it approaches zero in the limit anyway.

    This problem says to neglect air resistance.

Examples

217 sentences
  1. Mary has been neglecting her children.

    Мері не дбає про своїх дітей.

    ruМэри не заботится о своих детях.

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  2. He neglected his duties.

    Він знехтував своїми обов'язками.

    ruОн пренебрёг своими обязанностями.

    deEr hat seine Pflichten vernachlässigt.

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  3. I regret having neglected my health.

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  4. Tom said that he felt neglected.

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  5. Tom was neglected as a child.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
fail to care for:
Русский
By meaning 3
fail to care for:
omit to notice; slight; disregard:
failure due to carelessness:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
fail to care for:
omit to notice; slight; disregard:
failure due to carelessness:

Origin

The verb is inherited from Middle English neglect, neclect, derived from Latin neglēctus,

The verb is inherited from Middle English neglect, neclect, derived from Latin neglēctus, perfect passive participle of neglegō (“to make light of, disregard, not to pick up”), itself from nec (“not”) + legō (“to pick up, select”). The noun is from neglēctus (“neglect”). First attested in 1460, the noun in 1588.

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Forms

neglects, neglecting, neglected, neglected
Base formneglect · to neglect
3rd person singularneglects
Present participleneglecting
Past simpleneglected
Past participleneglected

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyneglect
he, she, itneglects

Past simpleLesson

all personsneglected

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave neglected
he, she, ithas neglected

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill neglect

Synonyms

13 synonyms
to omit to notice:disregardB2
failure due to carelessness:failA2forgetA1
fail to care for:let slide
Close in meaning

Antonyms

7 antonyms

Word family

16 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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