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Definition of Neglectful
1. Adjective. Not showing due care or attention. "Neglectful parents"
2. Adjective. Failing in what duty requires. "Remiss of you not to pay your bills"
Similar to: Negligent
Derivative terms: Neglectfulness, Remissness
Definition of Neglectful
1. a. Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent.
Definition of Neglectful
1. Adjective. Tending to neglect; failing to take care of matters which require attention. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Neglectful
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Neglectful
1. Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent. "A cold and neglectful countenance." (Locke) "Though the Romans had no great genius for trade, yet they were not entirely neglectful of it." (Arbuthnot) Neglect"fully, Neglect"fulness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Neglectful
Literary usage of Neglectful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Child Neglect: A Guide for Intervention by James M. Jr. Gaudin (1995)
"Many neglectful mothers are indeed psychologically immature and ... 6 This
characteristic of neglectful mothers is corroborated by Friedrich, Tyler, ..."
2. A Selection of English Synonyms by Elizabeth Jane Whately, Richard Whately (1860)
"neglectful' has reference generally to our conduct towards persons; ... A person
is said to be neglectful of his friends ; negligent of his business. ..."
3. The Parliamentary Debates: Official Report by Northern Ireland Parliament. House of Commons (1898)
"... and has been during the past five years, and ¡я neglectful of his duty as a
police-officer. The following are some of the instances of neglect of duty ..."
4. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1917)
"Yet once more the specimens given (I believe quite fairly) above entitle us —
and all but the most blindly fanatical neglectful qf observation—to observe in ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... and processions. frivolous life, being disobedient to his order, and neglectful
of his religious duties, reformed, became a curate in Monster, Holland, ..."
6. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1901)
"Son of God should have lived and died in that little land of Palestine so utterly
neglectful, to all appearance, of the world He had come to save ? ..."
7. A Selection of English Synonymes by Richard Whately (1873)
"neglectful' has reference generally to our conduct towards persons; ... A person
is said to be neglectful of his friends ; negligent of his business. ..."
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