(adv.) Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts.
(adv.) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight; as, to neglect strangers.
(v.) Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy.
(v.) Omission if attention or civilities; slight; as, neglect of strangers.
(v.) Habitual carelessness; negligence.
(v.) The state of being disregarded, slighted, or neglected.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
(2) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(3) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
(4) After these two experimental years, a governmental institute for prevention of child abuse and neglect was organized.
(5) The Guardian neglects to mention 150,000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms.
(6) Glutathion and ascorbic acid interfere with the test strip method but this error is neglectable because of physiological low concentrations of these substances.
(7) Chikavu Nyirenda, a leading political analyst, said: "She neglected to look at the local scene but spent a lot of time to please the west and promote herself."
(8) More than half of carers said they were neglecting their own diet as a result of their caring responsibilities, while some said they were eating the wrong things because of the stress they are under and more than half said they had experienced problems with diet and hydration.
(9) During interview and chart audit, the physicians were found to have consistently underestimated, misinterpreted, or neglected psychiatric aspects of care among a majority of patients in the study.
(10) Content-related development issues have been given little attention in the literature, yet their neglect typically results in important limitations on the usefulness of a database.
(11) However, the assessment of acceptance, of existing skills and of the ability of people to learn and absorb computer technology is still a neglected aspect in the implementation of computer systems.
(12) The discrepancy between left versus right latencies increased significantly in the secondary task condition for two patients in the neglect group but not for the other two.
(13) It was shown that neglect of this factor caused regular underestimation of the assessment of medullary doses, patients were exposed to, during x-ray procedures.
(14) But should a traffic officer go to jail for neglecting a dangerous road, or a doctor who misses a critical symptom, or a judge who lets a murderer go free?
(15) A 22 year old female-to-male half-Aboriginal transsexual had been exposed to gross neglect and violence, separation and inconsistent cultural supports during childhood.
(16) Injection of a low dose of haloperidol, that has no obvious behavioral effects in normal mice, produces akinesia, catalepsy, and somatosensory neglect in MPTP-treated mice.
(17) Comparative virology has proved quite productive in a relatively short period, and is unlikely to be neglected in the future.
(18) Patients with unilateral neglect may exhibit slowness in the initiation of contralesionally directed movements in peripersonal space (directional hypokinesia).
(19) One component of the test battery was a simple test described by Albert in which patients cross out lines ruled in a standard fashion on a sheet of paper; this was easy to administer and related closely to neglect diagnosed by the test battery as a whole.
(20) Cut-off points are provided to distinguish between such age-related impairment and visuospatial neglect.
Overlook
Definition:
(v. t.) To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill.
(v. t.) Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly; as, to overlook a gang of laborers; to overlook one who is writing a letter.
(v. t.) To inspect; to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.
(v. t.) To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.
(v. t.) To look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it; to miss or omit in looking; hence, to refrain from bestowing notice or attention upon; to neglect; to pass over without censure or punishment; to excuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
(2) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(3) The anomaly may represent a hitherto overlooked but easily obtainable diagnostic marker.
(4) In view of its infrequent and vague presentation, care is required to avoid overlooking the diagnosis of abdominal tuberculosis, particularly in the immigrant population.
(5) Before the offer for the jungle came in she was meant to be presenting the Plus Size Awards this week, an event supporting plus-size people who are doing amazing things but are overlooked by the mainstream.
(6) Similarly, it appears that acute hydronephrosis or worsening of an existing hydronephrosis has been somewhat overlooked as a possible cause of uncertain abdominal pain during pregnancy.
(7) I want to follow the west bank of the river south for some 100 miles to a bluff overlooking the river, where Sitting Bull is buried – and then, in the evening, to return to Bismarck.
(8) However, occupational hazards, toxic and iatrogenic drug-induced aetiologies should not be overlooked.
(9) The diagnosis of porphyria was overlooked in some as the symptoms may mimic those of other acute illnesses, so that incomplete or incorrect death certificates have been issued.
(10) In two cases, the pathologic report, reviewed retrospectively, failed to mention the cyst, but these cysts could have been overlooked.
(11) Results obtained with the probe were instrumental in modifying the operation in two of the four "positive" patients with recurrences, allowing the removal of tumour masses that would otherwise have been overlooked.
(12) Whereas the diagnosis unequivocally could be established by semithin sections the diagnosis was doubtful using material fixed with Bouin's solution and overlooked when the material was fixed with 4% formaldehyde solution.
(13) Photograph: KHIZR KHAN This sombre, serene oasis overlooking the Potomac river might also prove the graveyard of Donald Trump’s ambitions for the US presidency.
(14) This phenomenon may be common but overlooked because of the routine use of Ca2+ buffers in patch-clamp electrodes.
(15) Hypomagnesaemia is surprisingly common in hospital populations but is sometimes either undetected or overlooked.
(16) Studies of other cases are warranted to determine whether bacterial arteriopathy and arteritis have previously been overlooked or if the present case is unique.
(17) Using the computerized method a common bile duct stone would have been overlooked in only 1 patient but 17 unnecessary explorations would have been carried out.
(18) Polyps were detected ultrasonographically, but one third of them were overlooked by either cholecystography or CT. Nomenclature, pathological classification and management of the lesions are discussed.
(19) This paper addresses an often overlooked area of drug abuse: performance-enhancing drugs in sport.
(20) Although anterior and posterior traumatic displacement of cervical vertebrae are commonly noted, and the devastating neurological deficits associated with these injuries have been amply defined, lateral displacement with fractures has been rarely recognized, and the clinical significance of this injury has been overlooked.