Neglectful

Definitions: Neglectful

Neglectful

Adjective

1. Leaving vulnerable; "neglectful of her own financial security".

2. Not showing due care or attention; "inattentive students"; "an inattentive babysitter"; "neglectful parents".

3. Failing in what duty requires; "derelict (or delinquent) in his duty"; "neglectful of his duties"; "remiss of you not to pay your bills".

Date "neglectful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Neglectful

Synonyms: delinquent (adj), derelict (adj), inattentive (adj), neglectful of(p) (adj), remiss (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Insensibility	Indifferent, lukewarm; careless, mindless, regardless; inattentive; neglectful; disregarding.
Neglect	Render neglectful; Adjective: put off one's guard, throw off one's guard; distract, divert.
	Adjective: neglecting; Verb: unmindful, negligent, neglectful; heedless, careless, thoughtless; perfunctory, remiss; feebleness.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Neglectful

English words defined with "neglectful": forgetfulness ♦ laxity, laxness ♦ neglecter, neglectful of, neglectfully, Neglective ♦ remissness. (references)

Specialty definitions using "neglectful": Neglect, Negligence. (references)

Etymologies containing "neglectful": Neglective. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The Neglectful Guardian [LARGE PRINT] (reference) (more book examples)
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"Neglectful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Neglectful" is used about 23 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
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	23	72,767

Expression using "neglectful": neglectful of. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "neglectful": self-neglectful.
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Language		Translations for "neglectful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		neglizhent (neglect, remiss), mospërfillës (cavalier, defiant, disdainful, flippant, impervious, indifferent, languid, negligent, nonchalant, snooty, uninterested, unsympathetic), i shkujdesur (blind, carefree, careless, casual, cavalier, devil may care, downbeat, easy, easygoing, fast, forgetful, happy go lucky, heedless, improvident, inadvertent, incautious, inobservant, lax, light hearted, lightsome, negligent, remiss, slack, slaphappy, slipshod, thoughtless, traipse, trapes, unclean, unconcerned, unkempt, unladylike, unmindful, untidy). (various references)

Arabic		‏مهمل (abandoned, antiquated, careless, derelict, deserted, discarded, disregarded, disregardful, disused, forgetful, forgotten, forsaken, heedless, ignored, in disuse, inadvertent, inattentive, incautious, left out, left over, neglected, negligent, no longer of use, obsolete, omitted, out of use, outdated, reckless, refuse, regardless, remiss, slack, sloven, unpointed, waste), ‏مقصر: مهملا بشكل ما, ‏مستخف (neglected). (various references)

Bulgarian		невнимателен (careless, distrait, forgetful, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, incurious, inobservant, inurbane, light hearted, negligent, unattentive, unheeding, unkind), небрежен (careless, casual, floppy, heedless, lax, loose, neglige, negligent, perfunctory, ragged, raunchy, regardless, remiss, skimpy, slack, slapdash, slipshod, slipslop, sloppy, slovenly, thoughtless, unheeding, untidy). (various references)

Czech		nedbalý (careless, casual, lax, negligent, offhand, remiss, slack, sloppy, slovenly, unmindful), zanedbaný (derelict, frowsy, frowzy, neglected, squalid, uncared for, uncultivated, unkempt), lhostejný (apathetic, casual, cold, coldly, detached, impassive, impervious, indifferent, insensible, lackadaisical, negligent, nonchalant, phlegmatic, unconcerned, uninterested, unsympathetic). (various references)

Dutch		onachtzaam (careless, negligent, remiss), nonchalant (careless, negligent, remiss), nalatig (careless, negligent, remiss). (various references)

Esperanto		neglektema (careless, negligent, remiss), preterlasema (careless, negligent, remiss), malzorga (careless, negligent, remiss). (various references)

Finnish		leväperäinen (negligent). (various references)

French		négligent (neglect, negligent). (various references)

German		nachlässig (careless, carelessly, forgetful, inattentive, lackadaisical, lax, neglectfully, negligent, negligently, remiss, slack, slipshod, sloppy, thoughtless). (various references)

Greek		αμελήσ (careless, lax, negligent, remiss). (various references)

Hebrew		מז� יח, רשל� י (careless, negligent, remiss, slovenly). (various references)

Hungarian		hanyag (derelict, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, inobservant, inofficious, insouciant, lax, negligent, nonchalant, oblivious, perfunctory, remiss, slipshod, sloppy, slow, slubberer). (various references)

Indonesian		lalai (absent-minded, careless, dilatory, indifferent, remiss, untidy), alpa (inattentive), abai. (various references)

Italian		trascurato (careless, forlorn, inaccurate, lax, neglected, negligent, perfunctory, remiss, slovenly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		� り勝ち . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		お�"たりがち. (various references)

Manx		meechurrymagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		eglectfulnay.(various references)

Portuguese		negligente (careless, derelict, devil may care, heedless, idle, inadvisable, inattentive, incurious, inobservant, lazy, loose, mindless, negligent, perfunctory, reckless, regardless, slack, unheeding, unmindful, unwary), desleixar (neglect), desleixado (careless, floppy disk, forgetfulness, frumpish, incursion, negligent, remiss, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slouch, slovenly, uncared for, untidy), descuidado (brainless, carefree, careless, casual, harelip, heedless, inadvertent, incautious, light minded, mindless, negligent, perfunctory, reckless, regardless, remiss, scatterbrained, slapdash, sloppy, thoughtless, unheeding, unmindful, unthinking, untidy, unwary). (various references)

Romanian		nepãsãtor (airily, apathetic, apathetical, apathetically, careless, casual, devil may care, easy going, happy go lucky, heedless, impassible, impassive, inconsiderate, incurious, indifferent, indolent, insensible, insouciant, jaunty, lackadaisical, listless, negligent, nonchalant, reckless, regardless, remiss, slack, slow, stolid, thoughtless, unmoved), neglijent (careless, casual, casually, derelict, floppy, forgetful, inadvertent, loose, negligent, ragged, remiss, slack in duty, slacky, sleazy, slipshod, slothful, unheeding, unkempt, unmindful, untidy, unwary), neatent (absent minded, abstracted, abstractedly, careless, heedlessly, inadvertent, inadvertently, inattentive, inattentively, listless, negligent, perfunctorily, regardless, scatterbrain, scatterbrains, thoughtless, unmindful), fãrã griji (carefree, easy, free from care, freeminded, light-heartedly, thoughtless). (various references)

Russian		небрежный (careless, casual, devil-may-care, harum scarum, heedless, inadvertent, inexact, lax, loose, loose translation, negligent, nonchalant, perfunctory, ragged, remiss, scratchy, slipshod, sloppy, unheeding, unkempt). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nemaran (careless, casual, debonair, delinquent, devil may care, easygoing, feckless, floppy, inattentive, incurious, indifferent, negligent, reckless, slack, slipshod, sloppy). (various references)

Spanish		negligente (careless, devil may care, negligent, regardless), descuidado (abandoned, careless, disregarded, heedless, incautious, incautiousness, lackadaisical, neglected, negligent, overgrown, remiss, slovenly, thoughtless, unattending, uncared for). (various references)

Swedish		försumlig (delinquent, negligencet, negligent, negligible, remiss). (various references)

Thai		ที่สะเพร่า. (various references)

Turkish		umursamaz (conscience-proof, devil may care, disregardful, harum scarum, insensible, lax, light, negligent, reckless, slapdash, thickskinned, unconcerned, unheedful), lakayt (careless, indifferent, negligent, nonchalant, reckless, slapdash), ihmalkâr (careless, derelict, forgetful, inattentive, negligent, oblivious), ihmalci (careless, derelict, forgetful, inattentive, negligent, oblivious, remiss, slack, unheedful). (various references)

Ukranian		неуважний (absent, absentminded, abstracted, careless, distrait, erratic, faraway, forgetful, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, incurious, inobservant, mused, negligent, oblivious, oscitant, outward, unmindful, vague), недбайливий (negligent, remiss), недбалий (careless, casual, dishonest, heedless, inattentive, lax, negligent, nonchalant, oscitant, overly, slovenly, unguarded), безтурботний (carefree, careless, cavalier, devil may care, easygoing, effortless, gay, happy go lucky, heedless, inadvertent, jaunty, light hearted, negligent, nonchalant, placid, rollicking, serene, unconcerned, watchless). (various references)

Vietnamese		sao lãng, không chú ý hờ hững, cẩu thả (negligent, remiss). (various references)

Welsh		esgeulus (negligent). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	neglegens, neglegentia. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "neglectful": neglectfully, neglectfulness, neglectfulnesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "neglectful" (pronounced nigle"ktful)
6	-e" k t f u l	disrespectful, respectful.
5	-k t f u l	tactful.
4	-t f u l	artful, boastful, deceitful, delightful, distasteful, distrustful, doubtful, eventful, fateful, fistful, fitful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, grateful, hateful, hurtful, insightful, lustful, mistrustful, regretful, resentful, restful, rightful, spiteful, tasteful, thoughtful, uneventful, ungrateful, wasteful, wistful, zestful.
3	-f u l	apocryphal, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, disdainful, disgraceful, doleful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fearful, flavorful, forceful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, harmful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mournful, muffle, needful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, remorseful, reshuffle, resourceful, riffle, rifle, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, sorrowful, soulful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tearful, thankful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, unfaithful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, watchful, willful, wishful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-g-l-l-n-t-u"
	-1 letter: genuflect.
	-2 letters: feculent.
	-3 letters: fulgent, gleeful, neglect, teenful.
	-4 letters: cullet, eluent, englut, engulf, fluent, gentle, gluten, gullet, lucent, lungee, unfelt.
	-5 letters: centu, cleft, clung, culet, elect, elute, fence, fleet, flung, flute, fugle, genet, gleet, lunet, lunge, tenge, tulle, uncle, unlet.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-f-g-l-l-n-t-u"
	+2 letters: neglectfully.
	+4 letters: neglectfulness.
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