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adj
At fault; failing to fulfill responsibility, duty, or obligations.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Synonyms: at fault, blameworthy, lash, lax, negligent, reprehensible, censurable, culpable, guilty, nocent, to blame
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Not energetic or exact in duty or business; careless; tardy; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: careless, tardy, slack, languid, slow, adiaphroistic, apathetic, apathistical, blasé, blithe, deaf, cool, shiftless, dispassionate, dull, enervated, gallionic, halfhearted, heartless, impassive, ineffervescible, insouciant, indifferent, insensible, jaded, languorous, Laodicean, lethargic, listless, lackadaisical, lotophagous, lukewarm, meh, mopey, nonchalant, nonplussed, otiose, phlegmatic, pococurante, spiritless, supine, tepid, torpid, torpedinous, unaroused, uncaring, unconcerned, unenthusiastic, unimpressible, uninterested, unlively, unmoved, untouched, unzealous, world-weary, cursory, derelict, heedless, irregardless, irrespective, lash, lax, neglectful, negligent, reckless, regardless, remiss, slapdash, sloppy, slovenly, slipshod, unfaithful, crawling, slow-moving, draggy, creeping, dreich, gastropodous, glacial, heavy-footed, inching, inert, labored, leaden, lead-footed, low-speed, lumbering, plodding, pokey, ponderous, slothlike, slow as a snail, slow as Christmas, slow as molasses, slow as molasses in January, slowfooted, sluggish, stately, steady, subglacial, sullen, tardigrade, tedious, testudineous, turtleish, turtlesque, unspeedy
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
failing in what duty requires
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: derelict, delinquent, neglectful
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Middle English remisse, remysse, from Latin remissus (“languid, negligent”), perfect passive participle of remittō (“remit”).
Across languages
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
