neglected

[ne·glect]

If you are neglected, no one gives you the care or attention you need, like when you felt neglected on your birthday because everyone was so caught up preparing for your sister's wedding.

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Adjective S.
lacking a caretaker; "a neglected child"; "many casualties were lying unattended"

Adjective S.
disregarded; "his cries were unheeded"; "Shaw''s neglected one-act comedy, `A Village Wooing''"; "her ignored advice"


imp. & p. p.
of Neglect


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Usage Examples

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.

Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.

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