| unmindful | | |
| adj. | 1. forgetful, mindless, unmindful | not mindful or attentive.; "while thus unmindful of his steps he stumbled" |
| ~ amnesiac, amnesic | suffering from a partial loss of memory. |
| adj. | 2. oblivious, unmindful | (followed by `to' or `of') lacking conscious awareness of.; "oblivious of the mounting pressures for political reform"; "oblivious to the risks she ran"; "not unmindful of the heavy responsibility" |
| ~ incognizant, unaware | (often followed by `of') not aware.; "seemed unaware of the scrutiny"; "unaware of the danger they were in"; "unaware of the newborn hope"; "the most unaware person I've known" |
| derelict | | |
| n. (person) | 1. derelict | a person without a home, job, or property. |
| ~ pauper | a person who is very poor. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. abandoned ship, derelict | a ship abandoned on the high seas. |
| ~ ship | a vessel that carries passengers or freight. |
| adj. | 3. creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone | worn and broken down by hard use.; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack" |
| ~ worn | affected by wear; damaged by long use.; "worn threads on the screw"; "a worn suit"; "the worn pockets on the jacket" |
| adj. | 4. abandoned, derelict, deserted | forsaken by owner or inhabitants.; "weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse" |
| ~ uninhabited | not having inhabitants; not lived in.; "an uninhabited island"; "gaping doors of uninhabited houses" |
| adj. | 5. delinquent, derelict, neglectful, remiss | failing in what duty requires.; "derelict (or delinquent) in his duty"; "neglectful of his duties"; "remiss of you not to pay your bills" |
| ~ negligent | characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern.; "negligent parents"; "negligent of detail"; "negligent in his correspondence" |
| adj. | 6. bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down | in deplorable condition.; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack" |
| ~ damaged | harmed or injured or spoiled.; "I won't buy damaged goods"; "the storm left a wake of badly damaged buildings" |
| neglect | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. disregard, neglect | lack of attention and due care. |
| ~ inattention | lack of attention. |
| ~ omission | neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something. |
| n. (state) | 2. disuse, neglect | the state of something that has been unused and neglected.; "the house was in a terrible state of neglect" |
| ~ declination, decline | a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state. |
| ~ omission | something that has been omitted.; "she searched the table for omissions" |
| n. (act) | 3. disregard, neglect | willful lack of care and attention. |
| ~ mistreatment | the practice of treating (someone or something) badly.; "he should be punished for his mistreatment of his mother" |
| ~ despite | contemptuous disregard.; "she wanted neither favor nor despite" |
| n. (attribute) | 4. neglect, neglectfulness, negligence | the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern. |
| ~ carelessness, sloppiness | the quality of not being careful or taking pains. |
| ~ dereliction, willful neglect, delinquency | a tendency to be negligent and uncaring.; "he inherited his delinquency from his father"; "his derelictions were not really intended as crimes"; "his adolescent protest consisted of willful neglect of all his responsibilities" |
| ~ laxness, remissness, laxity, slackness | the quality of being lax and neglectful. |
| n. (act) | 5. carelessness, neglect, negligence, nonperformance | failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances. |
| ~ nonaccomplishment, nonachievement | an act that does not achieve its intended goal. |
| ~ dereliction | willful negligence. |
| ~ comparative negligence | (law) negligence allocated between the plaintiff and the defendant with a corresponding reduction in damages paid to the plaintiff. |
| ~ concurrent negligence | (law) negligence of two of more persons acting independently; the plaintiff may sue both together or separately. |
| ~ contributory negligence | (law) behavior by the plaintiff that contributes to the harm resulting from the defendant's negligence.; "in common law any degree of contributory negligence would bar the plaintiff from collecting damages" |
| ~ criminal negligence, culpable negligence | (law) recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences). |
| ~ neglect of duty | (law) breach of a duty. |
| ~ dodging, escape, evasion | nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do.; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive" |
| v. (cognition) | 6. drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit | leave undone or leave out.; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" |
| ~ forget | forget to do something.; "Don't forget to call the chairman of the board to the meeting!" |
| ~ pass over, skip, skip over, jump | bypass.; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible" |
| v. (social) | 7. fail, neglect | 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" |
| ~ lose track | fail to keep informed or aware.; "She has so many books, she just lost track and cannot find this volume" |
| ~ strike out | put out or be put out by a strikeout.; "Oral struck out three batters to close the inning" |
| ~ default, default on | fail to pay up. |
| ~ choke | fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation.; "The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience" |
| ~ muff | fail to catch, as of a ball. |
| ~ miss | fail to attend an event or activity.; "I missed the concert"; "He missed school for a week" |
| v. (cognition) | 8. neglect | fail to attend to.; "he neglects his children" |
| ~ slack | be inattentive to, or neglect.; "He slacks his attention" |
| v. (cognition) | 9. disregard, ignore, neglect | give little or no attention to.; "Disregard the errors" |
| ~ pretermit | disregard intentionally or let pass. |
| wanton | | |
| n. (person) | 1. wanton | lewd or lascivious woman. |
| ~ sensualist | a person who enjoys sensuality. |
| ~ light-o'-love, light-of-love | a woman inconstant in love. |
| v. (stative) | 2. piddle, piddle away, trifle, wanton, wanton away | waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently. |
| ~ expend, spend, drop | pay out.; "spend money" |
| v. (stative) | 3. wanton | indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life. |
| ~ live | lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style.; "we had to live frugally after the war" |
| v. (possession) | 4. trifle away, wanton, wanton away | spend wastefully.; "wanton one's money away" |
| ~ expend, spend, drop | pay out.; "spend money" |
| v. (consumption) | 5. luxuriate, wanton | become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously. |
| ~ ware, squander, consume, waste | spend extravagantly.; "waste not, want not" |
| v. (communication) | 6. wanton | engage in amorous play. |
| ~ chat up, coquet, coquette, flirt, mash, philander, butterfly, dally, romance | talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions.; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women" |
| v. (body) | 7. wanton | behave extremely cruelly and brutally. |
| ~ behave, act, do | behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself.; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people" |
| adj. | 8. motiveless, unprovoked, wanton | occurring without motivation or provocation.; "motiveless malignity"; "unprovoked and dastardly attack" |
| ~ unmotivated | without motivation. |
| adj. | 9. easy, light, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton | casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior.; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior" |
| ~ unchaste | not chaste.; "unchaste conduct" |
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