neglect
verb
[ nɪˈɡlɛkt ]
• 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,
neglect
noun
• the state of being uncared for.
• "the place had a hopeless air of neglect"
Origin:
early 16th century: from Latin neglect- ‘disregarded’, from the verb neglegere, from neg- ‘not’ + legere ‘choose, pick up’.
