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adj. Characterized by or inclined to neglect, especially habitually.

adj. Characterized by careless ease or informality; casual.

adj. Law Guilty of negligence.

adj. Careless, without appropriate or sufficient attention.

adj. Culpable due to negligence.

adj. Apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized by negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention.

Characterized by negligence or by neglectful habits; neglectful; careless; heedless; apt or accustomed to omit what ought to be done, or to do it in a careless or heedless manner: followed by of when the object of the negligence is specified: as, a negligent man; a man negligent of his duties.

Indicative of easy indifference or of disregard of conventionalities.

Synonyms Negligent, Neglectful, Remiss, Heedless, Thoughtless. inattentive, regardless, indifferent, slack. Of the first five words, remiss is the weakest; it especially applies to failure to attend to what is considered duty. Negligent is generally applied to inattention to things, neglectful to inattention to persons. Neglectful, by derivation, is stronger than negligent, but the difference is really small. Heedless, thoughtless, etc., indicate lack of heed, care, attention, thought, etc., where they are needed or due. All these words may apply to a particular occasion of failure, or indicate a habit or a trait of character; as, he is very heedless. See neglect, v., and negligence.

adj. characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern

"An outrage, they say, because they believe that ever since Beslan, the Russian government has done everything it could to try and cover up its -- what they call negligent handling of the crisis."

lax    hit-and-run    delinquent    inattentive    neglectful    derelict    slack    remiss   

careful    thorough    fastidious   

negligent escape   

negligence   

thoughtless    inattentive    neglectful    indifferent    heedless    careles    remiss    regardless    careless    neglective   

careless    indolent    improvident    lax    indifferent    thoughtless    incompetent    wasteful    corrupt    forgetful