Negligent

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Negligent \Neg"li*gent\, a. [F. n['e]gligent, 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. "Be thou
     negligent of fame." --Swift.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far
           from being poor.                         --Rambler.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Careles; heedless; neglectful; regardless; thoughtless;
          indifferent; inattentive; remiss.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  negligent
       adj 1: characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern;
              "negligent parents"; "negligent of detail"; "negligent
              in his correspondence" [ant: {diligent}]
       2: marked by insufficient care or attention; "a negligent
          housekeeper"; "negligent about personal cleanliness"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  170 Moby Thesaurus words for "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