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6. opposite, reverse, antithesis, contrary; absence, want, lack, deficiency.
negative, adj. 1. nullifying, voiding, disannulling, annulling, canceling, revocatory; quashing, invalidating, vitiating, vacating, disenacting; forbidding, prohibiting, proscribing, disapproving; denying, contradicting, gainsaying, traversing.
2. opposed, opposing, oppositive, oppositional; opponent, adversary, adversative, conflicting, against; counter, counteractive, counteracting, contrary, contradictory, contrapositive, adverse; antipathetic, antipathetical, repugnant, irreconcilable.
3. opposite, other; reverse, obverse, inverse, converse, contrasting.
4. pessimistic, cynical, faultfinding, complaining; gloomy, glum, mopey, mopish, morose; averse, unfriendly, uncongenial; unhelpful, uncooperative, recusant, uncompliant.
5. unrewarding, ineffective, gainless, profitless, fruitless, vain, futile.
-v. 6. deny, gainsay, contradict, refute, disprove,
negate. See - negate (def. 2).
7. nullify, veto, forbid, negate. See - negate (def 1).
8. neutralize, counteract, offset, balance, equalize,
neglect, v. 1. disregard, take no note or notice of, pass over, pretermit; ignore, overlook, look the other way, blink at, wink at, connive at; let [s.t.] ride, gloss over, make light of, shake off; pass by, Inf. give [s.t.] a miss.
2. omit, forget, lose sight of, not attend to, leave undone; scamp, skimp, shirk, Sl. goof off, Inf. lie down on the job; be remiss, be derelict, be heedless.
3. abandon, fail to care or provide for, Inf. let [s.t.] go; shun, leave alone; spurn, slight, Inf. cold-shoulder, scorn, contemn.
4. forbear, abstain from, do without, forgo, renounce, dispense with.
-n. 5. disregard, omission, oversight, inattention, default, Law. laches; disregardfulness, inattentiveness, forgetfulness, neglectfulness; incaution, incautiousness, heedlessness, carelessness, inadvertence, inadvertency.
6. noninterference, laissez faire, passiveness, passivity; inactivity, inaction, stasis; dormancy, stagnation.
7. negligence, negligency, dereliction, delinquency, remissness, Obs. indiligence; laxity, slackness, looseness, Fr. laissez-aller; slovenliness, sloppiness, shoddiness; carelessness, inaccuracy, inexactitude, inexactness.
8. languor, languidness, inexertion, indolence, otiosity, otioseness, laziness, idleness, sloth; dilatoriness, procrastination, delay, cunctation; nonchalance, insouciance, improvidence, imprudence, imprudency, indiscretion.
neglectful, adj. 1. disregardful, disregarding, disregardant, inattentive, careless, heedless, unheeding; unobservant, unwatchful, inadvertent, unguarded; thoughtless, unthinking, unmindful, forgetful, oblivious, unaware; improvident, imprudent, injudicious; reckless, rash, temerarious, Obs. respectless.
2. negligent, remiss, delinquent, derelict, Inf. asleep at the wheel or at the switch or on the job; indolent, lazy, slothful, laggard, shiftless, do-nothing, faineant; slack, loose, lax, sloppy, slipshod; dilatory, delaying, procrastinative, cunctatious, cunctatory.
negligee, n. nightgown, gown, d&olletage, Inf. nightie; dressing gown, peignoir, kimono, caftan, lounging robe, house coat, robe, bathrobe, bed jacket, wrapper, Fr. robe de chambre.
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