negligent

See also: négligent

English

Etymology

From Middle English necligent, negligent, from Old French negligent, from Latin negligēns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛɡ.lɪ.d͡ʒənt/

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Adjective

negligent (comparative more negligent, superlative most negligent)

1. Careless or inattentive.

   grossly negligent

   negligent behavior

   act in a negligent manner towards his pupils

   The driver was found negligent in causing the accident.

2. (law) Culpable due to negligence.

   prove someone negligent

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:careless

Derived terms

• negligent entrustment
• nonnegligent
• overnegligent
• unnegligent

Related terms

• negligence
• negligently

Translations

careless — see also careless

• Spanish: negligente (es), pigre

culpable due to negligence

• Azerbaijani: səhlənkar
• Catalan: negligent (ca)
• Czech: nedbalý
• Dutch: nalatig (nl)
• Finnish: piittaamaton (fi)
• French: négligent (fr)
• Galician: neglixente
• German: fahrlässig (de)
• Greek: αμελής (el) (amelís)
• Hungarian: gondatlan (hu)
• Italian: negligente (it)
• Kazakh: немқұрайлы (nemquraylı)
• Latin: neglegens
• Portuguese: negligente (pt)
• Romanian: neglijent (ro)
• Russian: хала́тный (ru) (xalátnyj)
• Spanish: negligente (es), omiso (es)
• Swedish: försumlig (sv)
• Tagalog: pabaya

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin negligentem. First attested in 1272.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [nə.ɣliˈʒe̞n]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [nə.ɣliˈʒent]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [nə.ɣliˈʒen]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ne.ɣliˈd͡ʒent]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [ne.ɣliˈʒen]

Adjective

negligent m or f (masculine and feminine plural negligents)

1. negligent

Related terms

• negligència
• negligir

References

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “negligent”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Further reading

• “negligent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “negligent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Latin

Verb

negligent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of negligō

Romanian

Adjective

negligent m or n (feminine singular negligentă, masculine plural negligenți, feminine/neuter plural negligente)

1. obsolete form of neglijent

Declension

Declension of negligent

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	negligent		negligentă	negligenți	negligente
	definite	negligentul		negligenta	negligenții	negligentele
genitive- dative	indefinite	negligent		negligente	negligenți	negligente
	definite	negligentului		negligentei	negligenților	negligentelor

References

• negligent in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN