Neglect

Definitions: Neglect

Neglect

Noun

1. Lack of attention and due care.

2. The state of something that has been unused and neglected; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect".

3. Lack of care and attention.

4. The trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern.

5. Failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances.

Verb

1. Leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten".

2. Fail to do something; leave something undone; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account".

3. Fail to attend to; "he neglects his children".

4. Give little or no attention to; "Disregard the errors".

Date "neglect" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Military	In artillery and naval gunfire support, a report to the observer/spotter to indicate that the last round(s) was fired with incorrect data and that the round(s) will be fired again using correct data. (references)
Tips from 1870	Usage: Negligence, Neglect. Negligence is the habit, neglect the act, of leaving things undone. The adjectives negligent and neglectful should, in like manner, be discriminated. Source: Slips of Speech.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Neglect

Synonyms: carelessness (n), disregard (n), disuse (n), neglectfulness (n), negligence (n), nonperformance (n), drop (v), fail (v), ignore (v), leave out (v), miss (v), omit (v), overleap (v), overlook (v), pretermit (v). (additional references)

Antonym: attend to (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dereliction of Duty	Verb: violate; break, break through; infringe; set aside, set at naught; encroach upon, trench upon; trample on, trample under foot; slight, neglect, evade, renounce, forswear, repudiate; wash one's hands of; escape, transgress, fail.
	Noun: dereliction of duty; fault; (guilt); sin; (vice); non-observance, non-performance; neglect, relaxation, infraction, violation, transgression, failure, evasion; dead letter.
Disrespect	Irreverence; slight, neglect, spretae injuria formae, superciliousness; (contempt).
Disuse	Verb: not use; do without, dispense with, let alone, not touch, forbear, abstain, spare, waive, neglect; keep back, reserve. lay up, lay by, lay on the shelf, keep on the shelf,lay up in ordinary; lay up in a napkin; shelve; set aside, put aside, lay aside; disuse, leave off, have done with; supersede; discard; (eject); dismiss, give warning.
Exclusion	Xclude, bar; leave out, shut out, bar out; reject, repudiate, blackball; lay apart, put apart, set apart, lay aside, put aside; relegate, segregate; throw overboard; strike off, strike out; neglect; banish; (seclude); separate.; (disjoin).
Inaction	Noun: inaction, passiveness, abstinence from action; noninterference, nonintervention; Fabian policy, conservative policy; neglect.
Incompleteness	Verb: be incomplete; Adjective: fall short of; lack; (be insufficient); neglect.
Neglect	Verb: be negligent; Adjective: take no care of; (take care of; ); neglect; let slip,let go; lay aside, set aside, cst aside, put aside; keep out of sight, put out of sight; lose sight of.
Noncompletion	Verb: not complete; leave unfinished; Adjective:, leave undone, drop, put down; neglect; let alone, let slip; lose sight of (forget).
	Nonperformance, inexecution; neglect.
Nonobservance	Verb: fail, neglect, omit, elude, evade, give the go-by to, set aside, ignore; shut one's eyes to, close one's eyes to.
	Noun: nonobservance; evasion, inobservance, failure, omission, neglect, laches, laxity, informality.
Nonpreparation	Nature, state of nature; virgin soil, unweeded garden; neglect.
Underestimation	Verb: underrate, underestimate, undervalue, underreckon; depreciate; disparage; (detract); not do justice to; misprize, disprize; ridicule; slight; (despise); neglect; slur over.
Untimeliness	Lose an opportunity, throw away an opportunity, waste an opportunity, neglect; an opportunity; allow the opportunity to pass, suffer the opportunity to pass, allow the opportunity to slip, suffer the opportunity to slip, allow the opportunity to go by, suffer the opportunity to go by, allow the opportunity to escape, suffer the opportunity to escape, allow the opportunity to lapse, suffer the opportunity to lapse, allow the occasion to pass, allow the occasion to slip by; waste time; (be inactive); let slip through the fingers, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You have to neglect illness, and the body, and so forth, to improve man. (Introduction to Scientology; writing credit: James Andrew Hall; H.G. Wells) It just feels like abandonment and neglect. (Titus; writing credit: Karl-Heinz K�fer)
Lyrics	A wound gets worse when it's treated with neglect ("Talk To Me"; performing artist: Stevie Nicks) But my friends say neglect is on your mind... ("What Have You Done For Me Lately"; performing artist: Janet Jackson) You can collect all neglect ("She Has Funny Cars"; performing artist: Jefferson Airplane)
Movie/TV Titles	Don't Neglect Your Wife (1921) Neglect Not the Children (1991)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Child Abuse and Neglect (reference) Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect Through Parent Education (reference) Protecting Children from Abuse and Neglect (reference) Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect (5th Edition) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Child Abuse & Neglect (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Don't Destroy Parental Powers By Neglect : Gonorrhea The Great Sterilizer.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Benjamin Franklin	A little neglect may breed great mischief.
C.f. Kettering	If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.
Dr. Frank Crane	The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.	Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.
Marguerite Duras	It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
Ovid	Neglect of appearance becomes men.
Robert Louis Stevenson	Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Samuel Johnson	What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
Wisdom and The Chinese	Do not consider any vice as trivial; and therefore practice it; do not consider any virtue as unimportant and therefore neglect it.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	Such designs as these (says he) when any king harbours in his thoughts and seriously promotes, he immediately gives up all care and thought of the common-wealth; so that, according to him, the neglect of the public good is to be taken as an evidence of such design, or at least for a sufficient cause of resistance. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	Absolute neglect of the mother and sisters, when invited to come, would be ingratitude.
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	I have been long a sleeper, but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Medical and nursing education neglect urinary incontinence. (references)
		Determine the characteristics of those who neglect changing skin lesions so educational campaigns may be improved. (references)
		Inadequate nursing home staffing prohibits proper treatment and contributes to the neglect of nursing home residents. (references)
Business		Female infanticide, abandonment, or neglect of baby girls may also be a factor in some areas. (references)
		However, since 1979, the production of solid waste (household, hospital, and industrial waste) has experienced unprecedented increase, neglect and has become a critical issue. (references)
		According to Carlos Arrigoni of Ernst & Young, the result of this trend has been a relative neglect and growing informality in the financing of small and midsized firms in the interior. (references)
Children	Paraguay	Abuse and neglect of children is a problem. (references)
	Moldova	Various laws contain provisions against neglect of children. (references)
	China	Neglect of baby girls is one factor in their lower survival rate. (references)
Civil Liberties	Nigeria	The soldiers had alleged medical neglect, substandard treatment, and non-payment of allowances after they returned injured from serving in the Nigerian contingent of ECOMOG forces in Liberia and Sierra Leone. (references)
Economic History	Tanzania	The road network must recover from 25 years of neglect and decay. (references)
	Nigeria	The legislature and judiciary, having suffered years of neglect, must be rebuilt as institutions. (references)
Human Rights	Haiti	Years of extensive corruption and governmental neglect have left the judicial system poorly organized and nearly moribund. (references)
	Panama	The authorities frequently do not address cases of abuse and neglect in these provincial jails due to their low profile in the prison system. (references)
	Mauritius	In all of the other cases of deaths in prison subsequent to February 1999, police conducted investigations, and there were no reports of abuse or neglect. (references)
Minorities	Czech Republic	A higher-than-average percentage of the Romani population applies for partial or full disability pensions due to the occurrence of malignant diseases resulting from the neglect of preventive health practices or the lack of available medical care in areas with above-average Romani populations. (references)
Political Economy	Burma	In 1999 the World Bank drafted a report highly critical of the junta's policies which neglect health and education. (references)
	Nigeria	In theory, an independent federal judiciary exists, but in reality the judicial branch has been greatly weakened by neglect and endemic corruption. (references)
Political Rights	Uganda	On May 12, three EC officials were arrested and charged with abuse of office and neglect of duty for printing excess cards for the purpose of allegedly rigging the presidential election; on July 31, the charges were dropped. (references)
Travel	Georgia	Georgia's once important railroad system has suffered from neglect, and is slow and unreliable. (references)
Women	Micronesia	In the traditional Micronesian extended family unit, spouses and children were accorded strong protections from violence, abuse, and neglect. (references)
Worker Rights	Ethiopia	The study concluded that physical and emotional abuse were twice as common among child workers compared with nonworkers, sexual abuse was five times as common, and neglect was eight times as common. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Thomas Jefferson	1801-1809	Some of the States have paid a laudable attention to this object, but every degree of neglect is to be found among others.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	Never again should we neglect a growing crisis like the shortage of energy, where further delay will only lead to more harsh and painful solutions.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	We have devoted five years trying to narrow a dangerous gap born of illusion and neglect.
George Bush	1989-1993	I won't neglect my responsibility for sound regulations that serve the public good, but regulatory overkill must be stopped.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	After years and years of neglect, this administration has taken a strong stand to stiffen protection on our borders.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Neglect" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 72.98% of the time. "Neglect" is used about 1,050 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	72.98%	766	8,974
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	19.7%	207	21,147
Lexical Verb (base form)	7.33%	77	37,929
Total	100.00%	1,050	N/A

Expressions using "neglect": benign neglect ♦ child neglect ♦ criminal neglect ♦ culpable neglect ♦ in a state of neglect ♦ in state of neglect ♦ inattention neglect ♦ neglect a distinction: confound ♦ neglect not observe ♦ neglect of ♦ neglect of duties ♦ neglect of duty ♦ neglect of smb.'s duties ♦ neglect of time ♦ neglect one's duties ♦ out of neglect ♦ willful neglect. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "neglect": patient-neglect, self-neglect.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "neglect"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		agterweë laat (fail, leave, leave out, omit, overlook), afstel (fail, omit). (various references)

Albanian		nuk i vë re, neglizhent (neglectful, remiss), shpërfill (contemn, disregard, pass by, slight), pakujdesshmëri, mospërfillje (carelessness, coldness, contempt, disinterest, disregard, indifference, insouciance, negligence, nonchalance, slight, slur, snub), lë pas dore (flaunt), braktisje (abandonment, apostasy, dereliction, desertion, limbo). (various references)

Arabic		‏هجر (break away, cast aside, dereliction, desert, desertion, disuse, drop out, emigratory, expel, expose, flee, forsake, immigrate, jettison, leave, quit, relinquish, renounce, scrap, skive, strand, surrender, throw, waive, weigh anchor), ‏لا يهتم (fribble, sidestep, tune out), ‏تجاهل (cut, disregard, eliminate, ignore, ignoring, inattention, overlooking, override, passing over, slight, slighting, wink at), ‏ترك (break, cast aside, discontinue, ditch, drop, drop it, drop out, lay aside, leave, leave about, let go, peg, quit, rap, resign, resignation, sign away, strand, suffer, unhand), ‏إهمال (default, delinquency, dereliction, disregard, easiness, forgetfulness, fribble, frowst, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, limbo, malpractice, negligence, omission, overlooking, remissive, remissness, slovenliness), ‏إستخفاف (disregard, underestimation), ‏إستخف (belittle, despise, disesteem, disparage, disregard, pass over, pooh pooh, slight, talk down, trifle with, underestimate, undervalue), ‏أهمل (be negligent, default, desert, discount, disregard, forsake, go by the board, lapse, lay aside, lay by, leave out, omit, overlook, pass, pass over smth., scorn, set apart, skive, slight, throwaway). (various references)

Bulgarian		занемареност (disrepair, negligence), изоставям (abandon, discard, drop, drop behind, dump, forsake, forsook, hang behind, lay aside, lay by, leave, overboard, pass up, put away, relinquish, renege, renounce, shelve, turn from, turn in, walk out on), изоставяне (abandonment, arrears, dereliction, desertion, exposure, lag, relinquishment, renouncement, renunciation), пренебрегвам (disregard, flaunt, flout, ignore, laugh at, lay aside, overlook, overpass, pass over, pass up, pretermit, put by, shrug off, sink, sit on, slight, wave aside, wave away), пренебрегване (blinking, oblivion), пропускам (admit, drop, fail, let in, let slip by, lose, omit, overleap, overlook, overpass, pass over, pass up, run, skip, throw away), липса на внимание, изоставеност (dereliction, desertion, desolation, forlornness), забравям (fail, forget, leave behind, omit, put aside, put behind, unlearn), опущение (dereliction, negligence, omission), занемарявам (abandon, evade), занемаряване (abandonment), не обръщам внимание на (disregard, forget, ignore, push aside, put away, shuck), неизпълнение (defection, negligence), небрежност (forgetfulness, laches, negligence, remissness), невнимание (inattention, indiscretion), липса на грижи. (various references)

Chinese		謾 (deceive, disrespect, slight), 疏忽 (negligence), 忽视 (Disregarded, Disregarding), 忽視 (ignore). (various references)

Czech		nedostatek péèe, zapomenout (forget, leave, omit), zanedbat (omit), zanedbání (failure, nonfeasance, omission), promeškat (let pass), opominout (pretermit), opomenutí (failure, laches, silence). (various references)

Danish		forsømme. (various references)

Dutch		veronachtzamen. (various references)

Esperanto		neglekto (slighting), neglekti, nefari (fail, omit), ne fari (fail, omit), malprefero (slighting), malatenti. (various references)

Faeroese		vansketta, misrøkja. (various references)

Farsi		فروگذاری (Omission, Silence), فروگذارکردن , مسامحه , غفلت کردن (Passover), غفلت (Default, Forget, Negligence, Omission), اهمال (Dodge, Negligence). (various references)

Finnish		lasten heitteillepano (desertion of children). (various references)

French		négliger. (various references)

Frisian		ferwaarloazje, efterútstelle (subordinate). (various references)

German		versäumen (fail, lose, miss, overstay, to overstay), vernachlässigen (be unkind to, ignore), nachlässigkeit (carelessness, inattentiveness, laxity, laxness, negligence, perfunctoriness, slackness, sloppiness, thoughtlessness). (various references)

Greek		αμέλεια (default, disregard, neglectfulness, negligence, perfunctoriness, remissness), αμελώ (disregard, skimp). (various references)

Hebrew		מח�"ל (omission, oversight), ל�"תעלם (disregard, ignore, overlook, override, pass over, vanish), ל�"תרשל (be negligent, muff, slack), ל�"ת� כר (deny, estrange, ignore, renounce, repudiate), ל�"שמיט (drop, leave out, let loose, miss out, omit), ל�"שתמט (dodge, escape, eschew, evade, malinger, shirk, swing the lead, temporize), ל�"ז� יח (abandon, omit), ז� יח�" (abandonment, desertion, forfeiture, forsaking), �"ז� ח�" (abandonment, dereliction, negligence, omission, rejection), רשול (carelessness, negligence, slovenliness). (various references)

Hungarian		elhanyagolás (dereliction), elhanyagoltság (disrepair), elhagyatottság (desolation, loneliness, self-abandonment). (various references)

Indonesian		penelantaran (abandonment), menterlantarkan (abandon), memperlalaikan (comfort, delay, postpone something). (various references)

Italian		trascurare (disdain, disobey, disregard, ignore, omit, overlook, skip), negligere, negligenza (abandonment, carelessness, laxity, negligence). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		疎� (estrangement, silence). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おろそか (carelessness, negligence), ネグレクト , そがい (check, damage by rats or mice, estrangement, hindrance, impediment, inhibition, obstruction, taxation, taxes), なおざり (disregard, make light of, negligence), きゅうたい (globe, laziness, old state of affairs, orb, sphere), そえ�" (estrangement, silence), ほうち (constitutional government, daimiate, fief, information, intelligence, leave alone, leave as is, leave to chance, news), けいし (brother and sister, capital, despise, execution, heir, heiress, ignore, metropolis, metropolitan police, old Kyoto, police superintendent, ruledpaper, slight, stepchild, successor), とうか�" (bitter cold, disregard, frost, mailing, make light of, negligence, posting, supervision, supervisor, sweating while sleeping). (various references)

Korean		태만 (inadvertency, Negligence). (various references)

Malay		melalaikan. (various references)

Manx		shleh (omission), neuyeadys (negligence), neuyeadid (negligence), neurioose (inadvertence), meerioose (carelessness, inattention, negligence, omission, thoughtlessness), meehastey (inattention), meechurrym (negligence), lhiggey shaghey (condone, defer, indolence, omit, postpone), cur shleh er (omit). (various references)

Papiamen		abandoná (abandon, desert, forsake, leave, quit, slighting). (various references)

Pig Latin		eglectnay.(various references)

Polish		lekceważyć. (various references)

Portuguese		negligenciar (default, disregard, forget, omit, overlooker, put by), negligência (barratry, default, disregard, East, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, incurious, lapse, misfeasance, negligence, omissions excepted), descuidar (overlook). (various references)

Romanian		nu de îngriji de, nu da atenţie, nu avea grijã de, nu acorda atenţie, nu îndeplini, nu ţine socotealã de, nu ţine cont de (discount, override), neglijare (dereliction, lapse, slighting), neglija (omit, pass by, pass over, slight), neîndeplinire (non-fulfilment), trece cu vederea (paper over, pardon), omite (balk, baulk, forget, jump, leave, omit, overlook, pretermit, retrench), lãsa în paraginã, desconsiderare (defiance, disdain, opprobrium), desconsidera (despise, disobey, disregard, slight). (various references)

Russian		нерадивость (laches, negligence), небрежность (inadvertence, inadvertency, laxity, malpractice, negligence, nonchalance), не обращать внимания (pass over, shrug off), запущенность (manginess), пренебрегать (contemn, disdain, disregard, flout, set aside, slighted, slighting, slights), пренебрежение (depreciation, disdain, disparagement, disregard, flout, scorn). (various references)

Scottish		dearmad (forgetfulness, omission). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zapustiti, zapuštanje, zapostaviti (overslaugh), zanemariti (disregard, ignore), zabataliti. (various references)

Spanish		descuidar (abandon, disregard, omit), desatender (disdain, disobey, disregard, ignore). (various references)

Swedish		vanvårda, vansköta (mismanage), uraktlåta (fail, omit), underlåta (omit), försumma (be careless of, Miss, omit). (various references)

Thai		ไม่สนใจ (fob off, foist off on), การละเลย (omission). (various references)

Turkish		unutmak (be oblivious of, be unmindful of, forget, leave, leave behind, leave out, loose sight of, omit, pass the sponge over, unlearn), ilgisizlik (apathy, backwater, coolness, disinterestedness, indifference, insouciance, listlessness, phlegm, unconcern, unconcernedness), ihmal etmek (be careless, be disregardful of, default on, disregard, fail, forget, leave out, let things slide, omit, slight), ihmal (carelessness, criminal neglect, delinquency, disregard, failure, forgetfulness, inattention, negligence, omission, remissness, shortcoming), boşlamak (ignore, let go, slacken), boşlama (cavitation), bakımsızlık (squalidity, squalidness, squalor), asmak (bunk, drape, drape over, gibbet, halter, hang, hang on, hang out, hang up, play hooky, post, post up, skip, skive off, sling, string up, suspend, swing, truss, wag), aldırmamak (be unmindful of, close one's eyes to, disregard, ignore, not to mind, pass by, pass over, pay no attention, shelve). (various references)

Turkmen		harlamak (disdain), дsgermezlik (disdain), дsgermezзilik (disdain). (various references)

Ukranian		не звертати уваги (brush aside, let things slide, overlook), забуття (condonation, effacement, forgetfulness, limbo, obliteration, oblivion, obliviousness, silence), занедбання, занедбаність (abandonment, desertion), занедбувати обов'язки, занехаяність, зневажання (abasement, forgetfulness, trample, violation), зневажати (cold shoulder, невимушенІсть [f], desecrate, despise, disdain, disregard, ignore, misprise, misprize, overlook, override, scorn, scout, spit, violate), зневага (contempt, disdain, disparagement, indignity, raspberry, spurn), забувати (efface, forget, leave, leave behind), не помічати (overlook), ігнорувати (balk, brush aside, defy, disregard, dissemble, eliminate, ignore, overjump, overleap, overlook), не виконувати, не турбуватися, недбалість (backwardness, carelessness, laxity, looseness, negligence, nonchalance, offhandedness, oscitancy, oscitation, preterition, pretermission, slapdash), недбайливість (negligence), недогляд (default, dereliction, erratum, inadvertence, inadvertency, negligence, omission, overlook, oversight), нехтування (slight), нехтувати (disdain, omit, override, slight), неувага (disregard, inattention), халатність, не дбати. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự sao lãng (neglectfulness), sự không chú ý sự bỏ bê, sự hờ hững (apathy, disinterestedness, indifference, unconcern), sự cẩu thả (carelessness, casualness, neglectfulness, oscitation, remissiness), sự bỏ mặc sự thời ơ. (various references)

Welsh		pallu (cease, fail, refuse), esgeuluso. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	taka. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	bacchides, darium, deerat, deerit, deerunt, deesset, deest, defuerit, defuerunt, defuit, dens, dente, dentem, dentes, dentibus, dentium, des, desis, desit, desunt, ignoro, incultus, incuria, incuriosus, neglegentia, neglegentiam, neglegentias, postponere, praetereat, praetereunte, praetereuntem, praetereuntes, praetereuntibus, praeteribant, praeteribis, praeteribit, praeteribo, praeteriens, praeterient, praeterierint, praeterieris, praeterierit, praeterieritis, praeterierunt, praeteriet, praeterii, praeteriit, praeterire, praeteriret, praeterissent, praeterisset, praeterit, praeterita, praeteriti, praeteritis, praeterito, praeteritum, praeterivi, praeterivit, praetermissio, praetermissio, pretermissio, situm, situs. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Matthew Chapter 18, Verse 17
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Ean de parakoush autwn eipe th ekklhsia ean de kai thV ekklhsiaV parakoush estw soi wsper o eqnikoV kai o telwnhV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Quod si non audierit eos dic ecclesiae si autem et ecclesiam non audierit sit tibi sicut ethnicus et publicanus
Old English	990	West Saxon	Gyf he þanne þe ne gehyrð. segge hitge-fer-redene. Gyf he hine ne ge-hyrð syohe þe swa swa hæðene & mannful.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And if he herith not hem, seie thou to the chirche. But if he herith not the chirche, be he as an hethen and a pupplican to thee.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	If he heare not them tell it vnto the congregacion. If he heare not ye congregacion take him as an hethen man and as a publican.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it to the church: but if he shall neglect to hear the church, let him be to thee as a heathen and a publican.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And if he will not give ear to them, let it come to the hearing of the church: and if he will not give ear to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax-farmer.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Matthew Chapter 18, Verse 17
Bulgarian	И ако не послуша тях, кажи това на църквата; че ако не послуша и църквата, нека ти бъде като езичник и бирник.
Cebuano	Kon magadumili man gayud siya sa pagpaminaw kanila, isumbong siya sa iglesia; ug kon dili gihapon siya maminaw bisan pa sa iglesia, nan, isipa siya nga usa ka Gentil ug maniningil sa buhis.
Chinese	若是不聽他們、就告訴教會．若是不聽教會、就看他像外邦人 �'� 稅吏一樣。
Croatian	Ako ni njih ne posluša, reci Crkvi. Ako pak ni Crkve ne posluša, neka ti bude kao poganin i carinik."
Danish	Men er han dem overhørig, da sig det til Menigheden; men er han også Menigheden overhørig, da skal han være for dig ligesom en Hedning og en Tolder.
Dutch	En indien hij denzelven geen gehoor geeft; zo zeg het der gemeente; en indien hij ook der gemeente geen gehoor geeft, zo zij hij u als de heiden en de tollenaar.
Finnish	Totisesti minä sanon teille: kaikki, minkä te sidotte maan päällä, on oleva sidottu taivaassa, ja kaikki, minkä te päästätte maan päällä, on oleva päästetty taivaassa.
French	S`il refuse de les écouter, dis-le � l`Église; et s`il refuse aussi d`écouter l`Église, qu`il soit pour toi comme un païen et un publicain.
German	Hört er die nicht, so sage es der Gemeinde. Hört er die Gemeinde nicht, so halt ihn als einen Zöllner oder Heiden.
Haitian Creole	Si l' refize koute yo tou, lè sa a wa di legliz la sa. Si l' refize koute legliz la, ou mèt gade l' tankou yon etranje pou ou, tankou yon pèseptè kontribisyon.
Hungarian	Ha azokra nem hallgat, mondd meg a gyülekezetnek; ha a gyülekezetre sem hallgat, legyen elõtted olyan, mint a pogány és a vámszedõ.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Kalau ia tidak menerima nasihat orang-orang itu, beritahukanlah hal itu kepada jemaat. Dan akhirnya, kalau ia tidak mau menerima nasihat jemaat, anggaplah ia sebagai penagih pajak dan seorang yang tidak mengenal Allah."
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Dan jikalau ia menolak perkataan mereka itu, katakanlah hal itu kepada sidang; tetapi jikalau tiada juga ia mendengar sidang itu pun, biarlah ia menjadi padamu seperti orang kafir dan seperti orang pemungut cukai.
Italian	Se poi non ascolter� neppure costoro, dillo all'assemblea; e se non ascolter� neanche l'assemblea, sia per te come un pagano e un pubblicano.
Korean	만 일 그 �"� 의 말 도 �"� 지 않 거 �" 교 회 에 말 하 � 교 회 의 말 도 �"� 지 않 거 �" 이 방 인 과 세 리 와 같 이 여 기 라
Latvian	Bet ja viòð tiem neklausîs, saki Baznîcai! Bet ja viòð Baznîcai neklausîs, tad lai viòð tev bûtu kâ pagâns un muitnieks!
Manx Gaelic	As mannagh der eh geill dauesyn, insh eh da'n agglish: agh mannagh der eh geill da'n agglish, jeeagh er myr an-chreestee as myr publican.
Maori	A, kite pake ia ki a raua, korerotia ki te hahi: a ki te pake ano ia ki te hahi, me waiho e koe hei tautangata, hei pupirikana.
Modern Greek	Και εαν παρακουση αυτων, ειπε τουτο προς την εκκλησιαν· αλλ' εαν και της εκκλησιας παρακουση, ας ειναι εις σε ως ο εθνικος και ο τελωνης.
Norwegian	Men hører han ikke på dem, da si det til menigheten! men hører han heller ikke på menigheten, da skal han være for dig som en hedning og en tolder.
Portuguese	Se recusar ouvi-los, dize-o � igreja; e, se também recusar ouvir a igreja, considera-o como gentio e publicano.
Rumanian	Dacq nu vrea sq asculte de ei, spune -l Bisericii; wi, dacq nu vrea sq asculte nici de Bisericq, sq fie pentru tine ca un pqgkn wi ca un vamew.
Russian	ЕУМЙ ЦЕ ОЕ � ПУМХЫБЕФ ЙИ, УЛБЦЙ �"ЕТЛЧЙ; Б ЕУМЙ Й �"ЕТЛЧЙ ОЕ � ПУМХЫБЕФ, ФП �"Б �'Х�"ЕФ ПО ФЕ�'Е, ЛБЛ СЪЩЮОЙЛ Й НЩФБТШ.
Shuar	Túrasha yatsum tuke ántachkuinkia Yus-shuar iruntainiam iwiainiakta. Túrasha yatsum tuke ántachkuinkia Yus-shuarcha Núnisan Enentáimtusta nu shuar.'
Spanish	Y si él no les hace caso a ellos, dilo a la iglesia; y si no hace caso a la iglesia, tenlo por gentil y publicano.
Swahili	Asipowasikia hao, liambie kanisa. Na kama hatalisikia kanisa, na awe kwako kama watu wasiomjua Mungu na watoza ushuru.
Swedish	Lyssnar han icke till dem, så säg det till församlingen. Lyssnar han ej heller till församlingen, så vare han för dig såsom en hedning och en publikan.
Thai	ถ้าเขาไม่ฟังคนเหล่านั้น จงไปแจ้งความต่อคริสตจักร ถ้าเขายังไม่ฟังคริสตจักรอีกก็ให้ถือเสียว่า เขาเป็นเหมือนคนต่างชาติและคนเก็บ� าษี
Ukrainian	А коли не послуха�" їх, скажи Церкві; коли ж не послуха�" й Церкви, хай буде тобі, як поганин і митник!
Uma	Ane uma-i dota mpangala' lolita sabi' toera, bua' -imi hi hawe'ea ompi' hampepangalaa'. Ane uma oa' napangalai' nau' hawe'ea ompi' hampepangalaa' mpoparesai' -i, pelele' lau-imi-hana, taponcawa hewa tauna to uma mpo'incai Alata'ala lau-imi, pai' hewa tauna to dada'a kehi-ra.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "neglect": neglected, neglecter, neglecters, neglectful, neglectfully, neglectfulness, neglectfulnesses, neglecting, neglects. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Neglect" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: englert, naglect, Neblett, neglet, negli, neglict, Negresco, Ngele. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "neglect" (pronounced nugle"kt)
4	-l e" k t	collect, deflect, elect, inflect, recollect, reelect, reflect, select.
3	-e" k t	affect, bedecked, checked, confect, connect, correct, decked, deject, detect, direct, disaffect, disconnect, disinfect, disrespect, dissect, effect, eject, erect, expect, incorrect, indirect, infect, inject, inspect, interconnect, interject, intersect, misdirect, necked, overprotect, perfect, protect, rechecked, reconnect, redirect, reinspect, reject, respect, resurrect, sect, subject, suspect, trekked, unchecked, wecht, wrecked.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-g-l-n-t"
	-1 letter: gentle.
	-2 letters: elect, genet, gleet, tenge.
	-3 letters: celt, cent, cete, gelt, gene, gent, glee, glen, leet, lent, teel, teen, tele.
	-4 letters: cee, cel, eel, eng, gee, gel, gen, get, lee, leg, let, nee, net, tee, teg, tel, ten.
	-5 letters: el, en, et, ne.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-g-l-n-t"
	+1 letter: electing, neglects.
	+2 letters: clientage, genetical, genuflect, neglected, neglecter, rectangle, selecting, telegenic.
	+3 letters: clientages, deflecting, electroing, geniculate, genuflects, neglecters, neglectful, neglecting, prelecting, rectangles, reelecting, reflecting.
	+4 letters: celebrating, congealment, deselecting, enucleating, geanticline, genetically, geniculated, genuflected, glabrescent, glycerinate, polygenetic, praelecting, preelecting, rejectingly, telecasting, telescoping.
	+5 letters: accelerating, cartwheeling, cladogenetic, congealments, conglomerate, decelerating, deescalating, electrifying, electrogenic, evangelistic, geanticlines, genuflecting, genuflection, geotechnical, glycerinated, glycerinates, intelligence, neglectfully, palingenetic, phylogenetic, preselecting, recollecting, reescalating, technologies, technologize.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 65 67 6C 65 63 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
child neglect	166
child abuse neglect	92
neglect	67
nursing home neglect	67
attorney nursing home neglect	31
elder neglect	30
elderly neglect	30
neglect in nursing home	26
senior neglect	24
neglect salutary	20
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Neglect

Definitions: Neglect

Neglect

Noun

Verb

Specialty Definitions: Neglect

Synonyms: Neglect

Synonyms within Context: Neglect

Dereliction of Duty

Disrespect

Disuse

Exclusion

Inaction

Incompleteness

Neglect

Noncompletion

Nonobservance

Nonpreparation

Underestimation

Untimeliness

Crosswords: Neglect

Modern Usage: Neglect

Screenplays

Lyrics

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Neglect

Books

Periodicals

Image Slideshow: Neglect

Computer Images:Neglect

Photo Album: Neglect

Familiar Quotations: Neglect

Benjamin Franklin

C.f. Kettering

Dr. Frank Crane

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Marguerite Duras

Ovid

Robert Louis Stevenson

Samuel Johnson

Wisdom and The Chinese

Historic Usage: Neglect

John Locke

Use in Literature: Neglect

Emma

Austen, Jane

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Non-Fiction Usage: Neglect

Speeches: Neglect

Thomas Jefferson

Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagan

George Bush

Bill Clinton

Usage Frequency: Neglect

Expressions: Neglect

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Neglect

child neglect

child abuse neglect

neglect

nursing home neglect

attorney nursing home neglect

elder neglect

elderly neglect

neglect in nursing home

senior neglect

neglect salutary

Modern Translations: Neglect

Afrikaan

Albanian

Arabic

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Chinese

Czech

Danish

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Neglect