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neglectful

[ ni-glekt-fuhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

characterized by neglect; disregardful; careless; negligent (often followed by of ):
neglectful of one's health.
Synonyms: thoughtless, heedless, inattentive, remiss
Antonyms: thoughtful, careful

neglectful

/ nɪˈɡlɛktfʊl /

whenpostpositive, foll by of not giving due care and attention (to); careless; heedless

First recorded in 1615–25; neglect + -ful

Off stage, he was an unfaithful husband, a neglectful father, and a friend only so long as you did what he wanted.

In the book, Matilda overcame her neglectful parents by teaching herself how to read Dickens and perform complicated math.

The mostly-absent/borderline neglectful parents are a famous film director and a former supermodel.

Too many of his writings have as their theme the great wrong done to him personally by a neglectful country.

Neglectful of his personal safety, he plunged out into the traffic, dodging this way and that, and making after Monte Irvin's car.

Are you going to throw off the mask outright, and become a bad husband as well as a neglectful one?

He became more and more neglectful, failing time after time to heed the alarm.

But he fell into a sort of settled melancholy, which nothing could shake off, and even grew neglectful of the bottle.

Although he participated freely in the fun of the old road, he was not unmindful or neglectful of his business.

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