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say it: nuh-GLEKT
neglect is a noun and verb meaning "lack of attention and due care". It is pronounced /nəˈɡlɛkt/ — nuh-GLEKT. It carries 9 recorded senses.
lack of attention and due care
the state of something that has been unused and neglected
“the house was in a terrible state of neglect”
willful lack of care and attention
the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern
failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
fail to do something; leave something undone
“She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib”
“The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for neglect come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.