| 单词 | neglectful |
| 释义 | neglectful, a.|nɪˈglɛktfʊl|
[f. neglect n. + -ful.]
Characterized by neglect or inattention; heedless, careless.
1644Bulwer Chirol. 121 The same neglectfull carriage of his Hand. 1682News fr. France 35 To free themselves from the guilt of a neglectful silence. 1729T. Cooke Tales, etc. 205, I shall first shew in what even our best Writers..have been neglectful. 1788Gentl. Mag. LVIII. 481 It cannot but appear grossly neglectful. 1817Jas. Mill Brit. India II. v. iv. 422 A government at once insatiable and neglectful. 1872E. Peacock Mabel Heron I. 24 Did you ever see anything in such a neglectful condition?
b. Const. of, or to with inf.
1624Massinger Renegado i. iii, I must grant Myself neglectful of all you have taught me. 1648Milton Observ. Peace Ormond Wks. 1851 IV. 555 In neither of those ways neglectfull of our just defence. 1795Southey Joan of Arc v. 285 Nor were our chieftains..neglectful to implore That heavenly aid. 1856Merivale Rom. Emp. xxxviii. (1865) IV. 344 Varus was not so neglectful of his own security.
Hence neˈglectfully adv.; neˈglectfulness.
1646Earl of Monmouth tr. Biondi's Civil Wars vi. 31 A great many Gentlemen, who talked neglectfully of Edward. 1693J. Edwards Author. O. & N. Test. 329 The looseness and neglectfulness of the stile. 1805Nelson 29 Aug. in Nicolas Disp. (1846) VII. 22 The omission of their delivery wilfully or neglectfully. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 448 note, In this neglectfulness he saw the dangerous germ of apostasy. |
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