Crossword clues for neglected
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Neglect \Neg*lect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Neglected; p. pr. & vb. n. Neglecting.] [L. neglectus, p. p. of neglegere (negligere) to disregard, neglect, the literal sense prob. being, not to pick up; nec not, nor (fr. ne not + -que, a particle akin to Goth. -h, -uh, and prob. to E. who; cf. Goth. nih nor) + L. legere to pick up, gather. See No, adv., Legend, Who.]
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Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to allow to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts.
I hope My absence doth neglect no great designs.
--Shak.This, my long suffering and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.
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To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight; as, to neglect strangers.
Syn: To slight; overlook; disregard; disesteem; contemn. See Slight.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"not treated with proper attention," c.1600, past participle adjective from neglect (v.).
Wiktionary
Suffering from neglect. v
(en-past of: neglect)
WordNet
adj. disregarded; "his cries were unheeded"; "Shaw's neglected one-act comedy, `A Village Wooing'"; "her ignored advice" [syn: ignored, unheeded]
lacking a caretaker; "a neglected child"; "many casualties were lying unattended" [syn: unattended]
Usage examples of "neglected".
Piles are not only in and of themselves very painful and annoying, but often greatly aggravate and even cause other grave and painful affections, and should, therefore, not be neglected.
And with the painting finished, Brigit had spent the day at Akasha, tending to the plants that had been a bit neglected these last few days.
If the cosmic menace of the anomaly had been ignored or underestimated, if our needs had been neglected, the errors had not been ours.
The trees looked as if they were dying and the flowers in the neglected beds rattled in the fumes and slipstreams of the traffic.
This hotel-de-ville, or town-hall, is the former Bailliage, the mansion of Groslot, the most illustrious house in Orleans, and the most neglected.
Barbie du Bocage, and points out that he appears to have neglected to consult de Barros, the most distinguished of all early Portuguese historians.
There was quite a bit of caffe consumed, but the ouiskie, brandy, wine, and beer were not neglected, either.
I should not have neglected to add that the damage to the ozone layer through the use of chlorofluorocarbons and similar substances in the twentieth century has brought about a serious intensification of incoming solar radiation, adding to the problem of global warming.
Me thinks there is some hanky-panky between the neglected Lady Coombs and him.
Perhaps he saunters into a country church-yard, and there finds amongst the rank grass and moss-grown and neglected memorials of the silent multitude, one trim and well-tended monument, uninvaded by cryptogamia, free from all stain of the weather, and the surrounding grassy sward neatly mown and fenced in, it may be, with budding willow branches or a circle of clipped box.
They looked instead to that neglected child of cryptography, the cipher.
The next day, about noon, Alec went into the library, where he found Mr Cupples busy re-arranging the books and the catalogue, both of which had been neglected for years.
Madame Querini alone did not seem pleased, because the lovely stranger monopolized the general attention, and it was a blow to her vanity to see herself neglected.
I liked Redegonde, and I had only neglected her at Brunswick because my means did not allow my making her a handsome present.
Twelve Apostles was a visit from a neighbor he had known in the Piazza Santa Croce, Agnolo Doni, his own age, whose father had made a beginning competence in the wool trade and bought a neglected palace near the Albertini palace in the Santa Croce quarter.