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[ adjective ] disregarded

Synonyms

unheeded ignored

Examples

"his cries were unheeded" "Shaw's neglected one-act comedy, `A Village Wooing'" "her ignored advice"

Used in print

(W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)

It was dirty and neglected .

Related terms

unnoticed

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[ adjective ] lacking a caretaker

Synonyms

unattended

Examples

"a neglected child" "many casualties were lying unattended"

Used in print

(W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)

But it had , as was usual in southern cities of this sort , a Black_Bottom , a low region near the river where the Negroes lived - servants and laborers huddled_together in a region with no sewage save the river , where streets and sidewalks were neglected and where there was much poverty and crime .

Related terms

uncared-for

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