NEGLECTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neglected mean? 

• NEGLECTED (adjective)
  The adjective NEGLECTED has 2 senses:

1. disregarded

2. lacking a caretaker

  Familiarity information: NEGLECTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEGLECTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disregarded

Synonyms:

ignored; neglected; unheeded

Context example:

her ignored advice

Similar:

unnoticed (not noticed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lacking a caretaker

Synonyms:

neglected; unattended

Context example:

many casualties were lying unattended

Similar:

uncared-for (lacking needed care and attention)

 Context examples 

Worse still, she neglected to make the old woman’s bed properly, and forgot to shake it so that the feathers might fly about.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Her father was a clergyman, without being neglected, or poor, and a very respectable man, though his name was Richard—and he had never been handsome.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Meg looked worn and nervous, the babies absorbed every minute of her time, the house was neglected, and Kitty, the cook, who took life 'aisy', kept him on short commons.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I am unwilling to fancy myself neglected for a young one.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In all she said there was no mention of his writing, and the manuscripts he had brought to read lay neglected on the ground.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There is no precaution which you have neglected.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Without a governess, you must have been neglected.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I neglected the boat and had the sail spilling the wind again and again, such was my delight in following her every movement as she searched through the blankets for the pin.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You must pardon me if I regard any interruption in your correspondence as a proof that your other duties are equally neglected.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Whenever I looked towards the past, I saw some duty neglected, or some failing indulged.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)