negligent
pronunciation
How to pronounce negligent in British English:
UK [ˈneɡlɪdʒənt]
How to pronounce negligent in American English:
US [ˈneɡlɪdʒənt]
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- Adjective:
- characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern
- marked by insufficient care or attention
Word Origin
- negligent (adj.)
- late 14c., from Old French negligent "careless, negligent" (13c.) or directly from Latin negligentem "heedless, careless, unconcerned" (see negligence). Related: Negligently.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Some are surely corrupt , but others are simply negligent or overly credulous .
- 2. Yet both he and the team are hampered by corrupt , negligent and antagonistic officials .
- 3. This crash was many things - criminal , negligent , class-based , structural , technological , political .
- 4. The open glory of the scenery is in absolute contrast to the social entrapment that fates jack and ennis to loveless marriages and negligent , ineffectual fatherhood .
- 5. Chinese officials on friday kept the pressure on conocophillips over a june oil spill , saying the u. s.company was negligent in its handling of leaks from an offshore field .