Negligent

English

Adjective

Negligent (comparative more Negligent, superlative most Negligent)

1. Careless, without appropriate or sufficient attention.
2. (law) Culpable due to negligence.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:careless

Thesaurus

apathetic, approximate, approximative, ataractic, beat-up, bedraggled, behindhand, blase, blowzy, botched, bungled, butchered, careless, casual, chintzy, culpably negligent, delinquent, derelict, devil-may-care, dilapidated, disinterested, dispassionate, disregardant, disregardful, distracted, distrait, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, easy, easygoing, feckless, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fumbled, grasshopper, grubby, happy-go-lucky, heedless, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-done, ill-executed, ill-managed, impolitic, impotent, imprecise, improvident, in rags, inaccurate, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, inconstant, incorrect, incurious, indifferent, inexact, inexcitable, informal, inobservant, insouciant, lackadaisical, laissez-faire, lax, lenient, listless, loose, lumpen, messy, mindless, misconducted, misdirected, misguided, mismanaged, muffed, murdered, mussy, neglectful, neglecting, nonadherent, nonchalant, noncompliant, nonconforming, noninterfering, nonobservant, nonrestrictive, off-guard, out of line, out of plumb, out of square, out of true, overindulgent, overly permissive, overpermissive, perfunctory, permissive, pococurante, poky, procrastinating, ragged, raggedy, reckless, regardless, relaxed, remiss, ruinous, scamping, scraggly, seedy, shabby, shiftless, shoddy, skimping, slack, slatternly, slighting, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, slurring, sluttish, soft, sordid, spoiled, squalid, tacky, tattered, thoughtless, thriftless, turned-off, unanxious, uncircumspect, uncompliant, unconcerned, unconforming, undiscriminating, uneconomical, unfactual, unfaithful, unguarded, unheedful, unheeding, uninterested, unkempt, unloyal, unmarking, unmindful, unneat, unnoticing, unnoting, unobservant, unobserving, unprecise, unproviding, unremarking, unrestrained, unrigorous, unsightly, unsolicitous, unthinking, unthrifty, untidy, untrue, unwary, unwatchful, weak

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈnɛɡ.lɪ.dʒənt/

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Translations

careless

Czech: nedbalý (cs) m. Finnish: huoleton (fi) French: distrait (fr) m., distraite (fr) f. German: nachlässig (de)

Hebrew: רשלן (he) (rashlan) m. Hungarian: hanyag (hu) Turkish: ihmalci (tr), ihmalkâr (tr), umursamaz (tr)

culpable due to negligence

Czech: nedbalý (cs) m. Finnish: piittaamaton (fi) French: négligent (fr) m., négligente (fr) f.

German: fahrlässig (de) Hungarian: gondatlan (hu)

Related terms

• negligence

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Latin

Verb

negligent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of negligō