negligent

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: neg=li=gent
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

negligent, a. [F. négligent, L. negligens,p. pr. of negligere. See Neglect.].

 Apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized by negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order.  Swift.  [1913 Webster]
"He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Careles; heedless; neglectful; regardless; thoughtless; indifferent; inattentive; remiss.

THESAURUS

negligent

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

ROGET THESAURUS

negligent

Neglect

N neglect, carelessness, trifling, negligence, omission, oversight, laches, default, supineness, inattention, nonchalance, imprudence, recklessness, slovenliness improvidence, noncompletion, inexactness, paralipsis, paralepsis, paraleipsis (in rhetoric), trifler, waiter on Providence, Micawber, neglecting, unmindful, negligent, neglectful, heedless, careless, thoughtless, perfunctory, remiss, feebleness, inconsiderate, uncircumspect, incircumspect, off one's guard, unwary, unwatchful, unguarded, offhand, supine, inattentive, insouciant, imprudent, reckless, slovenly inexact, improvident, neglected, unheeded, uncared-for, unperceived, unseen, unobserved, unnoticed, unnoted, unmarked, unattended to, unthought of, unregarded, unremarked, unmissed, shunted, shelved, unexamined, unstudied, unsearched, unscanned, unweighed, unsifted, unexplored, abandoned, buried in a napkin, hid under a bushel, negligently, hand over head, anyhow, in an unguarded moment, per incuriam, Int, never mind, no matter, let it pass, out of sight, out of mind.