Question

meaning of neglect in and English​

Answer 1

Answer:

Neglect means to fail to pay enough attention to someone or something

Answer 2

Answer:

What is the meaning of neglect?

1 : to give little attention or respect to : disregard The building has been neglected for years. 2 : to leave undone or unattended to especially through carelessness The prison guard neglected his duty. neglect.

Explanation:

verb

fail to care for properly.

"the old churchyard has been sadly neglected"

Similar:

• fail to look after
• fail to care for
• fail to provide for
• leave alone
• abandon
• forsake
• uncared for
• mistreated
• abandoned
• forsaken
• run down
• derelict
• dilapidated
• tumbledown
• ramshackle
• untended
• unmaintained
• overgrown
• uncultivated
• unweeded
• wild
• rumpty
• weedgrown

Opposite:

• cherish
• look after
• care for
• well cared for
• neat
• well tended

noun

the state of being uncared for.

"the place had a hopeless air of neglect"

Similar:

• disrepair
• dilapidation
• deterioration
• shabbiness
• disuse
• abandonment
• desuetude