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root((NEG))
negligent
1、 Failing to take proper or normal care.
2、 Marked by or likely to show neglect.
🌱The Army Corps of Engineers was found negligent for having failed to keep the New Orleans levees in good repair. 🌳To be negligent is to be neglectful. Negligence is an important legal concept; it's usually defined as the failure to use the care that a normally careful person would in a given situation. Negligence is a common claim in lawsuits regarding medical malpractice, auto accidents, and workplace injuries. But you can also be negligent about answering your e-mail, or negligent in the way you dress. （The original garment called a negligee was worn by women who had neglected to get fully dressed.） The legal meanings of negligent and negligence, however, tend to be the ones we most often encounter nowadays. abnegation Self-denial.
🌱She's been denying herself pleasures since she was a child, so she's actually attracted by the life of abnegation that a nun leads. 🌳Abnegation plays an important part in the teachings of all the major religions. The founder of Buddhism was a prince who gave up all his worldly goods when he discovered the world of poverty that lay outside the palace gates, and abnegation has been a Buddhism practice ever since. Hinduism has an even older tradition of abnegation. Special periods of abnegation and fasting may even be included in a religion's yearly calendar; serious Christians give up some pleasure for the 40-day period of Lent, for instance, and Muslims are forbidden to eat during daylight hours during the month of Ramadan. negligible So small as to be neglected or disregarded.
🌱Local weather forecasters had made it sound like the blizzard of the century, but the amount of snow turned out to be negligible. 🌳Negligible comes from the same Latin verb as neglect, so something negligible is literally "neglectable." If an accident results in negligible damage to your car, you should be thankful. If two years of intense focus on testing in the classroom results in a negligible improvement in student test scores, it's probably time to try something new. renege To go back on a promise or commitment.
🌱If his partners renege at this point, the whole project will probably fall through. 🌳To renege on a bet is to refuse to pay up when you lose. To renege on a promise of marriage, or on a deal of any kind, is to pull out. History is full of promises and commitments and treaties that were reneged on, such as the many treaties with Native Americans that American settlers and the U.S. government went back on over a period of almost 300 years. A synonym is welsh （"He always welshes on his deals"）; however, since that word may have come from Welsh, meaning a native of Wales in Britain, some people think it might be offensive.
2、 Marked by or likely to show neglect.
🌱The Army Corps of Engineers was found negligent for having failed to keep the New Orleans levees in good repair. 🌳To be negligent is to be neglectful. Negligence is an important legal concept; it's usually defined as the failure to use the care that a normally careful person would in a given situation. Negligence is a common claim in lawsuits regarding medical malpractice, auto accidents, and workplace injuries. But you can also be negligent about answering your e-mail, or negligent in the way you dress. （The original garment called a negligee was worn by women who had neglected to get fully dressed.） The legal meanings of negligent and negligence, however, tend to be the ones we most often encounter nowadays. abnegation Self-denial.
🌱She's been denying herself pleasures since she was a child, so she's actually attracted by the life of abnegation that a nun leads. 🌳Abnegation plays an important part in the teachings of all the major religions. The founder of Buddhism was a prince who gave up all his worldly goods when he discovered the world of poverty that lay outside the palace gates, and abnegation has been a Buddhism practice ever since. Hinduism has an even older tradition of abnegation. Special periods of abnegation and fasting may even be included in a religion's yearly calendar; serious Christians give up some pleasure for the 40-day period of Lent, for instance, and Muslims are forbidden to eat during daylight hours during the month of Ramadan. negligible So small as to be neglected or disregarded.
🌱Local weather forecasters had made it sound like the blizzard of the century, but the amount of snow turned out to be negligible. 🌳Negligible comes from the same Latin verb as neglect, so something negligible is literally "neglectable." If an accident results in negligible damage to your car, you should be thankful. If two years of intense focus on testing in the classroom results in a negligible improvement in student test scores, it's probably time to try something new. renege To go back on a promise or commitment.
🌱If his partners renege at this point, the whole project will probably fall through. 🌳To renege on a bet is to refuse to pay up when you lose. To renege on a promise of marriage, or on a deal of any kind, is to pull out. History is full of promises and commitments and treaties that were reneged on, such as the many treaties with Native Americans that American settlers and the U.S. government went back on over a period of almost 300 years. A synonym is welsh （"He always welshes on his deals"）; however, since that word may have come from Welsh, meaning a native of Wales in Britain, some people think it might be offensive.
NEG and its variants nec- and ne- are prefixes of denial or refusal in Latin, and the Latin verb negare means "to say no." To negate something is to make it ineffective, and something negative denies, contradicts, refuses, or reverses.🌸