Synonyms of the word

neglect

• v. (transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something.
• v. (transitive) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
• v. (transitive) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
• n. The act of neglecting.
• n. The state of being neglected.
• n. Habitual lack of care.

carelessness

• n. Lack of care.

declination

• n. At a given point, the angle between magnetic north and true north.
• n. At a given point, the angle between the line connecting this point with the geographical center of the…
• n. A refusal.
• n. (grammar) Declension.
• n. (archaic) The act or state of bending downward; inclination.
• n. (archaic) The act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay;…
• n. (archaic) Deviation.

decline

• n. Downward movement, fall.
• n. A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
• n. A weakening.
• n. A reduction or diminution of activity.
• v. (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
• v. (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
• v. (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
• v. To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
• v. (transitive) To refuse, forbear.
• v. (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number and…
• v. (by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
• v. (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because…

disregard

• n. The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about; misregard.
• v. To ignore; misregard.

disuse

• n. The state of not being used; neglect.
• v. (transitive) To cease the use of.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To disaccustom.

drop

• n. A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that…
• n. The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
• n. A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
• n. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal…
• n. An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies…
• n. (chiefly Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
• n. (chieflt, Britain, when used with the definite article (the drop) alcoholic spirits in general.
• n. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
• n. A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge.
• n. (American football) A dropped pass.
• n. (American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.
• n. (Rugby football) A drop-kick.
• n. In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference…
• n. (sports, usually with definite article "the") relegation from one division to a lower one.
• n. (video games, online gaming) Any item dropped by defeated enemies.
• n. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic-styled music such as dubstep, house, trance or trap, where…
• n. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
• n. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
• n. That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant…
• n. (architecture) A gutta.
• n. A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's…
• n. (slang) (With definite article) A gallows; a sentence of hanging.
• n. A drop press or drop hammer.
• n. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
• n. (nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.
• v. (intransitive) To fall in droplets (of a liquid).
• v. (transitive) To drip (a liquid).
• v. (intransitive) Generally, to fall (straight down).
• v. (transitive, ergative) To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
• v. (intransitive) To sink quickly to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To fall dead, or to fall in death.
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.
• v. (transitive) To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
• v. (transitive, slang) To part with or spend (money).
• v. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion…
• v. (intransitive) To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
• v. (transitive) To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message).
• v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down,…
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).
• v. (cricket, of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman…
• v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.
• v. (transitive) To dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose.
• v. (transitive) To eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.
• v. (Rugby football) To score [a goal] by means of a drop-kick.
• v. (transitive, slang) To impart.
• v. (transitive, music, colloquial) To release to the public.
• v. (transitive, music) To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.
• v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To enter public distribution.
• v. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
• v. (transitive) To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course.
• v. (transitive, fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.
• v. (intransitive, of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.
• v. (intransitive, of people) To visit informally; used with in or by.
• v. To give birth to.
• v. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
• v. (slang, of the testicles) To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.

fail

• v. (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
• v. (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually…
• v. (transitive) To neglect.
• v. (intransitive, of a machine, etc.) To cease to operate correctly.
• v. (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
• v. (intransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
• v. (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To miss attaining; to lose.
• v. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
• v. (archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
• v. (archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
• v. (archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
• v. (obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.
• v. (obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
• v. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's…
• n. (uncountable, slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
• n. (slang) A failure (condition of being unsuccessful).
• n. (slang, US) A failure (something incapable of success).
• n. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
• n. A failing grade in an academic examination.
• adj. (slang, US) That is a failure.
• n. A piece of turf cut from grassland.

ignore

• v. To deliberately pay no attention to.
• v. To pretend to not notice someone or something.
• v. (obsolete) Fail to notice.

inattention

• n. Want of attention, or failure to pay attention; disregard; heedlessness; neglect.
• n. An act of neglect; failure of courtesy.

miss

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fail to hit.
• v. (transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.
• v. (transitive) To feel the absence of someone or something, sometimes with regret.
• v. (transitive) To fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception.
• v. (transitive) To fail to attend.
• v. (transitive) To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
• v. (poker, said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player.
• v. (sports) To fail to score (a goal).
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go wrong; to err.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
• n. A failure to hit.
• n. A failure to obtain or accomplish.
• n. An act of avoidance (used with the verb give).
• n. (computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
• n. A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
• n. An unmarried woman; a girl.
• n. A kept woman; a mistress.
• n. (card games) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted…

mistreatment

• n. Improper treatment, abuse.

neglectfulness

• n. The characteristic of being neglectful.

negligence

• n. The state of being negligent.
• n. (law, singular only) The tort whereby a duty of reasonable care was breached, causing damage: any conduct…
• n. (law, uncountable) The breach of a duty of care: the failure to exercise a standard of care that a reasonable…

nonaccomplishment

• n. Something that does not achieve the intended goal.

nonachievement

• n. Something that does not achieve the intended goal.

nonperformance

• n. A failure to perform a task, especially a task that one was legally bound to do.

omit

• v. (transitive) To leave out or exclude.
• v. (transitive) To fail to perform.
• v. (transitive, rare) To neglect or take no notice of.

overleap

• v. (transitive) To leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping.
• v. (transitive) To pass over; to omit, leave out.

overlook

• n. A vista or point that gives a beautiful view.
• v. To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to…
• v. Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly.
• v. To inspect; to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.
• v. To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.
• v. To fail to notice; to look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it; to miss or omit in looking.
• v. To pretend not to have noticed, especially a mistake; to pass over without censure or punishment.

pretermit

• v. To intentionally disregard something, allow it to go unnoticed, or change the subject in response to someone's…

sloppiness

• n. (uncountable) The property of being sloppy.
• n. (countable) The result or product of being sloppy.