Reverse Dictionary: NEGLIGENCE

ADJECTIVES
► ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH negligent of or oblivious to one’s responsibility, off guard → 1906 US colloq.
► DESIDIOUS idle, lazy, indolent, slothful, negligent, sluggish → a1540 obs.
► EEDLE-DEEDLE ► EEDLE-DODDLE easygoing, lacking initiative, negligent, muddle-headed → a1880
► LACHOUS negligent, remiss → 1484 obs.
► LASH culpably negligent or remiss → c1374 obs.
► NEGLECT negligent → 1603
► NESH slack, negligent; lacking in energy or diligence → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► OSCITANT gaping from drowsiness, yawning; hence, drowsy, dull, indolent, negligent, inattentive through drowsiness → 1625 obs.
► REMISSFUL full of remissness; careless, negligent → 1836
► REMISSIVE careless, negligent, remiss → c1487 obs.
► SLIBBER-SLABBER very careless, negligent → 19C
► YEMELES careless, heedless, negligent → c897 obs.

ADVERBS
► NEGLECTINGLY negligently, neglectfully → 1596 obs.
► NEGLECTLY negligently → 1594 obs.
► VORLUS SNORLUS at random, negligently → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► VORUS-NORUS at random, negligently → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

NOUNS
► INAPPLICATION a not applying oneself to one’s duties; heedlessness, negligence, indolence → 1721
► LACHES slackness, remissness, negligence; also, an act of neglect → 1362 obs.
► NEGLECTION negligence, neglect → 1591 obs.
► NEGLECTIVENESS negligence, neglect → 1621 obs.
► NEGLIGENCY negligence → 1800
► REMISSES negligences → 1881 (Bk.)
► SWEERING sloth, negligence → a1300 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BITCH an untidy or negligent woman → 1945 criminals’ sl.  (Bk.)
► NEGLIGENT a negligent person → 1616
► SLACK-ARSE a lazy, inefficient, negligent person; a shirker; an idler → 1971 Aust. sl. 

VERBS
► LACHE to be careless about, to neglect, to slight; to be negligent, to lag, to loiter → a1400 Sc. & N. Eng. obs.