| negligence | | |
| n. (act) | 1. 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" |
| n. (attribute) | 2. 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. |
| imprudent | | |
| adj. | 1. imprudent | not prudent or wise.; "very imprudent of her mother to encourage her in such silly romantic ideas"; "would be imprudent for a noneconomist to talk about the details of economic policy" |
| ~ careless | marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful.; "careless about her clothes"; "forgotten by some careless person"; "a careless housekeeper"; "careless proofreading"; "it was a careless mistake"; "hurt by a careless remark" |
| ~ improvident | not provident; not providing for the future. |
| ~ ill-considered, ill-judged, improvident, shortsighted | not given careful consideration.; "ill-considered actions often result in disaster"; "an ill-judged attempt" |
| ~ injudicious | lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise.; "an injudicious measure"; "the result of an injudicious decision" |
| ~ rash | imprudently incurring risk.; "do something rash that he will forever repent" |
| ~ foolish | devoid of good sense or judgment.; "foolish remarks"; "a foolish decision" |
| adj. | 2. imprudent | lacking wise self-restraint.; "an imprudent remark" |
| ~ indiscreet | lacking discretion; injudicious.; "her behavior was indiscreet at the very best" |
| thoughtless | | |
| adj. | 1. thoughtless | showing lack of careful thought.; "the debate turned into thoughtless bickering" |
| ~ inconsiderate | lacking regard for the rights or feelings of others.; "shockingly inconsiderate behavior" |
| ~ unconsidered, inconsiderate | without proper consideration or reflection.; "slovenly inconsiderate reasoning"; "unconsidered words"; "prejudice is the holding of unconsidered opinions" |
| ~ unreflective, unthinking, unthoughtful | not exhibiting or characterized by careful thought. |
| adj. | 2. thoughtless, uncaring, unthinking | without care or thought for others.; "the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; `Let them eat cake'" |
| ~ inconsiderate | lacking regard for the rights or feelings of others.; "shockingly inconsiderate behavior" |
| klutz | | |
| n. (person) | 1. klutz | (Yiddish) a clumsy dolt. |
| ~ yiddish | a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script. |
| ~ dolt, dullard, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid, stupid person | a person who is not very bright.; "The economy, stupid!" |
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