remiss
[ri-mis]
adjective
negligent, careless, or slow in performing one's duty, business, etc.: He's terribly remiss in his work.
characterized by negligence or carelessness.
lacking force or energy; languid; sluggish.
Origin of remiss
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin remissus (past participle of remittere to send back, slacken, relax); see remit
Synonyms for remiss
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Related Words for remissness
slackness, oversight, laxness, inattention, thoughtlessness, laxity, forgetfulness, failure, disregard, neglect, unpreparednessExamples from the Web for remissness
Historical Examples of remissness
She returned only the more oppressed by the sense of remissness—of remorse.
Elsie Marley, HoneyJoslyn Gray
Every day it is so, and there is no remissness in the observance of the custom.
Record of Buddhistic KingdomsFa-Hsien
His excuse for remissness in correspondence was, "I am a young man and in Paris."
Washington IrvingCharles Dudley Warner
He rejoiced in death, when, from no remissness of his, it closed his labours.
Sir Walter RaleghWilliam Stebbing
There can be no relaxation of effort, no remissness, in such a quest.
The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. PeterJ. Rawson Lumby
remiss
adjective (postpositive)
Word Origin for remiss
C15: from Latin remissus from remittere to release, from re- + mittere to send
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