Definition of Neglect

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Neglect

Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts.

To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight; as, to neglect strangers.

Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy.

Omission if attention or civilities; slight; as, neglect of strangers.

Habitual carelessness; negligence.

The state of being disregarded, slighted, or neglected.

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Neglect Quotations

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Confucius

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
George Washington

A man should never neglect his family for business.
Walt Disney

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
Colin Powell

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
Mary Wollstonecraft

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
Robert Baden-Powell

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
Rose Kennedy

We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
Alfred Adler

Neglect Translations

neglect in Dutch is veronachtzamen
neglect in Italian is negligere
neglect in Latin is praetermissio, incultus, incuriosus, incuria
neglect in Spanish is descuidar, desatender

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