Reverse Dictionary: NEGLECT

ADJECTIVES
► DOWN-AT-HEEL characterized by shabbiness, disrepair, neglect, or destitution; having a shabby or run-down appearance → 1856
► DOWN-AT-HEELED characterized by shabbiness, disrepair, neglect, or destitution; having a shabby or run-down appearance → 1884
► ELAPSED suffered to slip by, neglected → 1649 obs.
► FROWZY having a dirty, untidy, soiled, neglected appearance, as unkempt hair, etc.; dingy, rusty, slatternly, unkempt → 1710
► ILL-MADE-ON of a child: neglected, badly brought up → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ILL-TENDED neglected, little cared for → 1897 Eng. dial.
► IN THE COLD neglected; ignored → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LEFT OUT neglected; ignored → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LEFT OUT IN THE COLD neglected; ignored → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LIKE A LILY ON A DUSTBIN lonely, neglected → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► NEGLECT neglected → 1530 obs.
► NEGLECTIVE neglectful, inattentive, careless → 1611 obs.
► NOT IN IT neglected; ignored → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► ONE EYED inconvenient, out of the way, neglected → 1896 Eng. dial.
► OUT IN THE COLD neglected; ignored → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PASSED UP neglected; ignored → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► RACKLEDOWN tumble-down, neglected → Bk19C Eng. dial.
► THROWAWAY useless; superfluous; cruelly neglected → 1970s US sl.
► UNASSERVED unserved, neglected → c1400 obs.

ADVERBS
► NEGLECTINGLY negligently, neglectfully → 1596 obs.

NOUNS
► CAST-BY a person or thing cast aside and neglected → 1818
► DEFAULT failure in duty, care, etc., as the cause of some untoward event; culpable neglect of some duty or obligation → a1300 obs.
► FAILANCE the fact of failing; failure, neglect, omission→ 1612 obs.
► FAULT default, failing, neglect → c1325 obs.
► HOLIDAY a forgotten or neglected task → 1935 US Navy sl.
► LACHES slackness, remissness, negligence; also, an act of neglect → 1362 obs.
► LACHOUSNESS remissness, neglect → 1496 obs.
► NEGLECTION negligence, neglect → 1591 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► NEGLECTIVENESS negligence, neglect → 1621 obs.
► PARALIPOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of neglect of some duty → 1991 (Bk.)
► PRETERMISSION an overlooking or disregarding something; the omission of something from a speech, etc.; omission of or neglect to do something → 1581
► UNCONSIDERANCE neglect of something → 1546 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► ASHIEPATTLE ► ASSIEPATTLE a neglected or dirty child; a Cinderella, a drudge, a lazy person; a term of contempt for the young of animals → 1825 Sc.
► ASSIE-PET an idle slattern; a neglected or dirty child → 1825 Sc.
► CAST-BY a person thrown aside or neglected as worthless → 1818 Sc.
► CINDERELLA a neglected person → 1840
► GAMIN a neglected boy, left to run about the streets; a street urchin, a guttersnipe; generally, a streetwise or impudent child  → 1832
► TACKY a shabby, uncultured person, an untidy, neglected, or sloppy person, a backwoodsman → 1914 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► WAIF a person who is without home or friends; one who lives uncared-for or without guidance; an outcast from society; an unowned or neglected child → 1784

VERBS
► ABROGATE to evade, neglect, or renounce an obligation or duty; to shirk a responsibility → 1904
► DEFAULT to fail to perform; to omit, to neglect → 1648 obs.
► FANCY A LOT to fancy something is wrong; to feel hurt or neglected → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FART OFF to slight; to neglect; to ignore→ 1942 Amer. sl.
► FORESLACK ► FORSLACK to be slack in, to neglect; to lose or soil by slackness or delay → 1563 obs.
► GAMFLE ► GAMPHLE to idle, to dally; to neglect one’s work from foolish merriment; to act foolishly like lads and lasses at a fair; to frolic, to trifle → 1808 Sc.
► GIVE ONE THE GO-BY to avoid, to disregard, to neglect → 1855 Amer. dial.
► LACHE to be careless about, to neglect, to slight; to be negligent, to lag, to loiter → a1400 Sc. & N. Eng. obs.
► LACHES ► LACHESSE to neglect, to slight → c1425 obs.
► LEAP to evade, to neglect → 1658-9 obs.
► LEAVE to neglect or omit to perform some action, duty, etc. → a1300 obs.
► LEAVE BEHIND to neglect, to leave undone → a1300 obs.
► LET THE HIDE GO WITH THE TALLOW to ignore little matters in the presence of greater; to neglect details when larger matters are lost → 1916 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► LET THE TAIL GO WITH THE HIDE to ignore little matters in the presence of greater; to neglect details when larger matters are lost → 1916 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► LIE COMMON to be neglected → 1774 US
► MISLIPPEN to neglect, to overlook; to mismanage → 1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MISTENT to neglect → 1825 Sc.
► PRETERMIT 1475 – to neglect or omit an action, duty, etc.; to leave undone or unused; to fail to attend to
► SCONCE to refuse, to neglect, to shirk → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SEND TO THE WALL to thrust aside into a position of neglect → 1901
► SET TO THE WALL to thrust aside into a position of neglect → 1583 obs.
► SIT to disregard, to neglect, to pay no heed or attention to → a1300 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. obs.
► THROW OFF ON to neglect, to ignore, to abandon → 1858 Amer. dial.
► THRUST TO THE WALL to thrust aside into a position of neglect → 1592 obs.
► WAIVE to treat with neglect, to ignore, to disregard, to overlook; to let pass an opportunity → c1400 obs.