Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Given to or characterized by neglect, especially habitual neglect.
- adjective Law Acting with or done through negligence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by negligence or by neglectful habits; neglectful; careless; heedless; apt or accustomed to omit what ought to be done, or to do it in a careless or heedless manner: followed by of when the object of the negligence is specified: as, a negligent man; a man negligent of his duties.
- Indicative of easy indifference or of disregard of conventionalities.
- Synonyms Negligent, Neglectful, Remiss, Heedless, Thoughtless. inattentive, regardless, indifferent, slack. Of the first five words, remiss is the weakest; it especially applies to failure to attend to what is considered duty. Negligent is generally applied to inattention to things, neglectful to inattention to persons. Neglectful, by derivation, is stronger than negligent, but the difference is really small. Heedless, thoughtless, etc., indicate lack of heed, care, attention, thought, etc., where they are needed or due. All these words may apply to a particular occasion of failure, or indicate a habit or a trait of character; as, he is very heedless. See
neglect , v., and negligence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized by negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Careless , without appropriate or sufficient attention. - adjective law
Culpable due tonegligence .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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An outrage, they say, because they believe that ever since Beslan, the Russian government has done everything it could to try and cover up its -- what they call negligent handling of the crisis.
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John McCain on Rove: It depends on what the definition of "negligent" is by on
07/24/2005 2005
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Whether BP (and/or its contractors) were criminally negligent is the subject of a Justice Department investigation.
Freak accident or frontier enterprise? Deep-water drilling is still a big unknown. Joel Achenbach 2010
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Whether BP (and/or its contractors) were criminally negligent is the subject of a Justice Department investigation.
Freak accident or frontier enterprise? Deep-water drilling is still a big unknown. Joel Achenbach 2010
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Whether BP (and/or its contractors) were criminally negligent is the subject of a Justice Department investigation.
Deepwater Horizon and technological catastrophes Joel Achenbach 2010
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Whether BP (and/or its contractors) were criminally negligent is the subject of a Justice Department investigation.
Freak accident or frontier enterprise? Deep-water drilling is still a big unknown. Joel Achenbach 2010
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She used the word negligent – I used it only is nresponse to her post – and she has had it pointed out before that there is no evidence of volcanic involvement, but a GREAT deal of observation and evidence of increasing temperatures, surface melt and fissuring as the method of collapse, for both Larsen A and B, and for smaller collapses and sloughing being observed.
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No idea if this was force-wide policy or an overly cautious/paranoid Inspector though, but surely that’s just plain negligent?
Inspector Gadget RANTS about ‘car chases’ SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski D-Md., a critic of what she has called negligent safety practices under former Metro chief John Catoe, this week lauded Sarles for having "a commitment to creating the culture of safety we need at Metro."
Metro names chief executive and board members Ann Scott Tyson 2011
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Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski D-Md., a critic of what she has called negligent safety practices under former Metro chief John Catoe, this week lauded Sarles for having "a commitment to creating the culture of safety we need at Metro."
Metro names chief executive and board members Ann Scott Tyson 2011
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