adj
Meaning 1
Suffering from neglect; uncared-for.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
neglected
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/nɪˈɡlɛktɪd/
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CMU ARPABET: N AH0 G L EH1 K T AH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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verb
Meaning 2
simple past and past participle of neglect
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
lacking a caretaker
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a neglected child
- many casualties were lying unattended
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: unattended
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
disregarded
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his cries were unheeded
- Shaw's neglected one-act comedy, `A Village Wooing'
- her ignored advice
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ignored, unheeded
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: desdexáu — suffering from neglect
- Azerbaijani: baxımsız — suffering from neglect
- Azerbaijani: nəzarətsiz — suffering from neglect
- Azerbaijani: başlı-başına buraxılmış — suffering from neglect
- Belarusian: закі́нуты (zakínuty) — suffering from neglect
- Bulgarian: захвърлен (zahvǎrlen) — suffering from neglect
- Bulgarian: безпризорен (bezprizoren) — suffering from neglect
- Czech: zanedbaný — suffering from neglect
- Czech: opomíjený — suffering from neglect
- Dutch: verwaarloosd — suffering from neglect
- Esperanto: neglektata — suffering from neglect
- Finnish: laiminlyöty — suffering from neglect
- French: négligé — suffering from neglect
- German: vernachlässigt — suffering from neglect
- Greek: απεριποίητος (aperipoíitos) — suffering from neglect
- Hindi: अवहेलित (avhelit) — suffering from neglect
- Hindi: उपेक्षित (upekṣit) — suffering from neglect
- Icelandic: vanræktur — suffering from neglect
- Indonesian: terabaikan — suffering from neglect
- Italian: negletto — suffering from neglect
- Italian: abbandonato — suffering from neglect
- Kabuverdianu: bandonadu — suffering from neglect
- Kabuverdianu: bandonóde — suffering from neglect
- Latin: neglectus — suffering from neglect
- Latin: omissus — suffering from neglect
- Norwegian Bokmål: forsømt — suffering from neglect
- Polish: zaniedbany — suffering from neglect
- Russian: забро́шенный (zabróšennyj) — suffering from neglect
- Russian: запу́щенный (zapúščennyj) — suffering from neglect
- Russian: беспризо́рный (besprizórnyj) — suffering from neglect
- Spanish: descuidado — suffering from neglect
- Spanish: abandonado — suffering from neglect
- Ottoman Turkish: قوسقونسز (kuskunsuz) — suffering from neglect
- Ukrainian: зане́дбаний (zanédbanyj) — suffering from neglect
Real reading context