omit

[ oh-mit ]

verb (used with object)

, o·mit·ted, o·mit·ting.

1. to leave out; fail to include or mention:

   to omit a name from a list.

2. to forbear or fail to do, make, use, send, etc.:

   to omit a greeting.

omit

/ əʊˈmɪsɪbəl; əʊˈmɪt /

verb

1. to neglect to do or include
2. to fail (to do something)

Derived Forms

• omissible, adjective
• oˈmitter, noun

Other Words From

• o·mit·ter noun
• pre·o·mit verb (used with object) preomitted preomitting

Word History and Origins

Origin of omit¹

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English omitten, from Latin omittere “to let go,” equivalent to o- prefix meaning “to, toward, over, etc.” ( o2- ) + mittere “to send“

Word History and Origins

Origin of omit¹

C15: from Latin omittere, from ob- away + mittere to send

Example Sentences

You can’t work here if you cannot lift a certain amount of weight, so I think she may have omitted information about her injury to get hired.

From Washington Post

Every question includes a space for your name but please feel free to omit your name and type a subject line or the question’s topic.

From Washington Post

Current climate models tend to omit this thinning effect, she says.

From Science News

Other states’ vaccine plans indicate they will omit some people — smokers in some cases, or pregnant people, or people with only one co-morbidity.

From Washington Post

The main benefit of this method, which will obviously involve a lot of precision maneuvering, is that it means SpaceX can save both cost and weight by omitting landing legs from the Super Heavy design altogether.

From TechCrunch

This came across in the Showtime Omit the Logic documentary—in which you were a commentator—and it comes across here.

From The Daily Beast

Sister Cristina's lyrics also omit such lines as, “Feels so good inside, when you hold me, and your heart beats, and you love me.”

From The Daily Beast

Until fairly recently, Miller said that the Air Force used to allow its troops to omit the “so help me God” phrase.

From The Daily Beast

Israeli history book fail to mention the Palestinian Nakba; Palestinians omit the Holocaust.

From The Daily Beast

He'd instead omit the flyers, stuff his pockets with as many brushes as they could hold, and sell them at the very first call.

From The Daily Beast

It would not be fair to omit the name of the first mould-maker who made the tumbler-mould in question.

From Project Gutenberg

But being observed, one evening, to omit it, a gentleman reminded him that he had forgotten to toast his favorite lady.

From Project Gutenberg

But for I was so pleyne, Arcyte, In alle my werkes, much and lyte; and omit was in l. 266.

From Project Gutenberg

The tobacconist whom he thus favored was his under-treasurer, Hardham, whom no writer about snuff should omit to notice.

From Project Gutenberg

This line is too long; I omit ful wel devysed, which is not in the original.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bypass
• delete
• discard
• disregard
• edit
• eliminate
• ignore
• neglect
• overlook
• prohibit
• skip
• withhold