neglect
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Is neglect a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of neglect?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To fail to care for or attend to something.Examples: "to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts"; "I hope My absence doth neglect no great designs."; "This, my long sufferance and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn, shall never taste."Synonyms: let slidetransitive
2. (transitive) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.Examples: "to neglect strangers"Synonyms: disregardtransitive
3. (transitive) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.Examples: "A friend of mine who runs an intellectual magazine was grousing about his movie critic, complaining that though the fellow had liked The Godfather (page 58), he had neglected to label it clearly as a masterpiece."Synonyms: fail, forgettransitive
4. (transitive, mathematics) To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy.Examples: "We can neglect this term, as it approaches zero in the limit anyway."; "This problem says to neglect air resistance."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary