Adjective: neglected nu'glek-tid
- Disregarded
"Shaw's neglected one-act comedy, ‘A Village Wooing’";
- ignored, unheeded
- Lacking a caretaker
"a neglected child";
- unattended
- Leave undone or leave out
"How could I neglect that typo?";
- pretermit [archaic], omit, drop, miss, leave out, overlook, overleap [archaic]
- Not do something; leave something undone
"She neglected to notice that her child was no longer in his crib";
- fail
- Fail to attend to
"he neglects his children"
- Give little or no attention to
"neglect the errors";
- ignore, disregard
See also: uncared-for, unnoticed
Encyclopedia: Neglected
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