• IPA: /nɪˈɡlɛkt/

neglect (neglects, present participle neglecting; past and past participle neglected)

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

   to neglect duty or business;  to neglect to pay debts

   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene iv]:

     I hope / My absence doth neglect no great designs.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 3”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     This, my long sufferance and my day of grace, / Those who neglect and scorn, shall never taste.

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

   to neglect strangers

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

• (fail to care for) let slide
• (to omit to notice) disregard, take no notice of; see also Thesaurus:ignore
• (failure due to carelessness) fail, forget

• (fail to care for) care, mind, reck; see also Thesaurus:care
• (to omit to notice) consider, notice, regard; see also Thesaurus:pay attention

• negligee
• negligent
• negligence

• French: négliger
• German: missachten
• Italian: tralasciare
• Portuguese: negligenciar
• Russian: пренебрега́ть
• Spanish: descuidar, desoír, hacer caso omiso

• French: négliger
• German: vernachlässigen
• Italian: mancare, negligere, omettere, ignorare
• Portuguese: negligenciar
• Russian: забрасывать
• Spanish: descuidar, negligir

• German: versäumen
• Portuguese: negligenciar
• Russian: упуска́ть
• Spanish: descuidar, negligir

neglect

1. The act of neglecting.
2. The state of being neglected.
3. Habitual lack of care.

• carelessness
• negligence

• consideration
• notice
• regard

• French: négligence
• German: Vernachlässigung
• Italian: negligenza
• Portuguese: negligência
• Russian: пренебреже́ние
• Spanish: negligencia, abandono

• French: négligence
• German: Nachlässigkeit
• Russian: небре́жность
• Spanish: negligencia