单词 | neglect |
释义 | ne·glect I. 1. a. < some of the most significant issues have been neglected — Bruce Payne > < neglected the real needs of the students > b. < a great deal of its important work must either be neglected or only inadequately done — J.E.Smith > < neglected her clothes and hair > < neglected his correspondence > 2. < neglecting their obvious duty > < neglected to mention that he was a convict — Bernard Smith > 3. obsolete < my absence doth neglect no great design — Shakespeare > Synonyms: < neglect the duties of a citizen > < neglect one's friends > omit implies to neglect entirely, as by oversight or inattention, an important detail or aspect of a whole or of a series of related things < wished his parents had omitted to have him baptized — Bruce Marshall > < small possessions of her own which she had omitted to remove from the … room — Arnold Bennett > disregard usually implies a voluntary inattention < efface and injure something in ourselves, when we hurry by and disregard what does not seem to profit our own existence — Laurence Binyon > < wished to affirm her right to disregard the feelings of all the world — Joseph Conrad > ignore implies an intention to disregard or a failure to regard something more or less obvious < he who ignores outsiders is naturally ignored himself — G.G.Coulton > < get a reputation for clarity by avoiding or ignoring all the tangled jungles, by detouring round the blind alleys and dead ends of thought — Irwin Edman > < ignore trivial irritations > overlook implies a disregarding typically through haste or lack of care < some of the most significant issues have been neglected, and many revealing lessons of past experience have been overlooked — Bruce Payne > < promised to give him some background work, a promise he later overlooked — American Guide Series: Louisiana > slight usually implies cursory treatment, often contemptuous, or a disdainful disregarding < nothing in the service was slighted, every phrase and gesture had its full value — Willa Cather > < these systems sometimes do not receive their full share of attention and may be slighted in the design — H.J.Petersen > < felt as if he had been slighted by a close friend > forget in this comparison can imply a willful ignoring but more often suggests an absentminded neglecting < the matter seemed important but I was told by my superiors, who were afraid of trouble, to forget it > < forgot to turn off the gas before leaving the house > II. 1. a. < could not understand his neglect of her > < one other element which may have contributed to the neglect of this problem — H.G.Armstrong > b. < would sink back into relative neglect and stagnation — Harold Griffin > 2. a. < cannot deny the total neglect of the house > b. archaic < recovering from … ravages and neglects — J.H.Stocqueler > Synonyms: see failure |
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