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negligent

adjective
🔊/ˈneɡlɪdʒənt/
🔊/ˈneɡlɪdʒənt/
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  1. (law法律 or formal) failing to give somebody/something enough care or attention, especially when this has serious results疏忽的；造成过失的
    • The company was found to have been grossly negligent.该公司被发现严重过失。
    • negligent in something The hospital was negligent in the way it cared for this young man.医院对这个年轻人疏于照顾。
    • negligent in (not) doing something The school had been negligent in not informing the child's parents about the incident.校方疏忽了，没有向这孩子的父母通报这件事。🔊🔊
    Topics Difficulty and failurec2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • seem
    adverb
    • grossly
    • criminally
    preposition
    • in
    • over
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  2. (literary) (of a person or their manner人或行为方式、态度) relaxed; not formal 放松的；随便的；不拘谨的synonym nonchalant
    • He waved his hand in a negligent gesture.他漫不经心地挥了挥手。🔊🔊
    • her negligent grace她的过失
    3. Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin negligent- ‘disregarding’, from the verb negligere (variant of neglegere ‘disregard, slight’, from neg- ‘not’ + legere ‘choose, pick up’).