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单词 negligent
释义 negligent, a. and n.|ˈnɛglɪdʒənt|
Forms: 4–6 neclig-, 5–6 neclyg-, 4 necglig-, 6 neglyg-, 4– negligent.
[a. OF. negligent (13th c.), or ad. L. negligent-, negligens, pres. pple. of negligĕre to neglect.]
A. adj.
1. a. Of persons: Inattentive to duty; not attending to, or doing, what ought to be done; neglectful. Also const. of.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 312 O worldly prest necligent and unkunnynge.c1450tr. De Imitatione i. xxv. 37 The negligent religiose & þe leuke haþ tribulacion.1485Caxton Chas. Gt. 22 Yf the kyng be neclygent the peple wote not what to doo.1551Crowley Pleas. & Pain 155, I found you negligent in fedynge my family.1581Mulcaster Positions xxxix. (1887) 192 To better him if he be negligent, to be like him if he be diligent.1651Hobbes Leviath. i. xv. 79 The most part are too busie in getting food, and the rest too negligent to understand.1675Evelyn Diary 22 Mar., He was very negligent himselfe, and rather so of his person.1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 103 He's nothing of a Soldier (Thanks to his negligent Officers).1784Cowper Task iii. 276 The proud, uncandid, insincere, Or negligent inquirer.1879Cable Old Creole Days v. (1883) 144 He was a great student and rather negligent of his business.
absol.1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. II. 99/1 Faults which the negligent and unadvised easily fall into.
b. Heedless, careless, indifferent. rare.
c1440Alph. Tales 416 He, negligent of þe said perels,..wold hafe þis drope of honye.1709Steele Tatler No. 61 ⁋4 They carry it so far, as to be negligent, whether they offend or not.
2. a. Of actions, conduct, etc.: Characterized by, or displaying, negligence or carelessness.
1500–20Dunbar Poems ix. 118 Fals vane gloir and deidis negligent.1538Starkey England i. i. 14 Theyr maner of lyfyng, wych they, by necligente incontynence, suffur to be corrupt.1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iv. ii. 44 O negligent and heedlesse Discipline.1617Moryson Itin. i. 278, I will confess my negligent omission in noting the rates of my exchanges.1678Moxon Mech. Exerc. iv. 73 You might with a negligent, or unlucky knock with the Mallet, drive the edge..under the work.1705Stanhope Paraphr. I. 12 A sordid or negligent Temper.1781Johnson in Boswell, Does it not suppose, that the former judgement was temerarious or negligent?1805Scott Last Minstr. i. x, All loose her negligent attire, All loose her golden hair.1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xxxiii, The person..with a haughty, negligent air, delivered her basket.
b. Due to negligence. rare.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. vi. 81 Till we perceiu'd both how you were wrong led, And we in negligent danger.1660Young Vade Mecum (ed. 6) 95 Negligent Escape, is where one is arrested, and afterward escapes against the will of him that arrested him.1843–56Bouvier Law Dict. (ed. 6) s.v., For a negligent escape, the sheriff or keeper of the prison is liable to punishmnent in a criminal case.
3. quasi-adv. Negligently. rare—1.
1738Wesley Hymn, My drowsy Powers ii, Yet we who have a Heav'n t'obtain How negligent we live!
B. n.
1. A negligent person.
1616W. Sclater Serm. 18, I know not whether I may say Recusants or Negligents.1638Serm. Experimentall 129 Taxed here are..Negligents in this duty.1853Whewell Grotius II. 192 It often happens in agents or negligents of the secondary order.1892Star 14 Dec. 2/5 [A] congenial company of negligents.
2. A type of wig worn in the 18th century.
1753in F. W. Fairholt Costume in England (1885) II. 320 The pigeon's wing, the comet, the cauliflower,..the rose, the crutch, the negligent, the chancellor, [etc.].1762Goldsmith Life R. Nash 74 Nash..had seen flaxen bobs succeeded by majors, which in their turn gave way to negligents.1971J. Woodforde Strange Story False Hair vii. 46 Men'seighteenth century..Negligent.




Add:[A.] [1.] c. Law. Of a person: failing to show reasonable care.
1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 174/1 The liability of the latter was not, before 1880, extended to make the master responsible in damages if the person injured and the negligent servant were both in his service.1971Reader's Digest Family Guide to Law 214/2 In deciding whether a minor has been ‘negligent’, the standard applied is that of a reasonably careful minor of that age.1987Woman & Home July 11/2 People who believe they have been damaged by drug side effects will no longer have to prove that a company was negligent—just that their drug caused the injury.
[2.] c. Law. Characterized by negligence (sense 1 d), careless; esp. (U.S.) negligent driving.
1741Modern Reports (Cases Court of King's Bench) (ed. 2) XII. 152 It was moved in Arrest of Judgment, that such an Action on the Case lies only for a negligent keeping his Fire in his House.1861Rep. Supreme Court U.S. XXIV. 124 The stable-keeper provided the driver through whose negligent driving an injury was done to the horse of a third person.1917Northeastern Reporter CXVI. 80/2 The accident was caused by the negligent driving of the servant.1920Ibid. CXXVI. 73/1 On the ground that the city was not liable for the negligent driving of the hose truck operated by a member of the city fire department while in the performance of his duties.1973Daily Tel. 21 Aug. 15 Joseph Kennedy, 21-year-old son of the late Senator Robert Kennedy, was fined $100 ({pstlg}40) for negligent driving in Nantucket yesterday.
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