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neglected, ppl. a.|nɪˈglɛktɪd|
[f. neglect v. + -ed1.]
Not attended to or cared for; not treated with proper attention; disregarded.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. ii. 394 A beard neglected, which you haue not. 1634Milton Comus 743 Like a neglected rose It withers on the stalk. 1705Stanhope Paraphr. II. 208 All the neglected Opportunities of Amendment. 1781Cowper Table-t. 546 Neglected talents rust into decay. 1819Shelley Cenci iv. i. 54 Where evil thoughts Shall grow like weeds on a neglected tomb. 1872Morley Voltaire (1886) 10 The too neglected list of good causes lost.
Comb.1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt i, He was not a neglected-looking old man.
Hence neˈglectedly adv.; neˈglectedness.
1659Hammond On Ps. cii. 9 Make them look sadly and neglectedly. 1660S. Ford Loyal Subj. Exult. 21 In warre all things are cloathed with a dismall neglectedness. 1825New Monthly Mag. XIII. 141 Not leaving thee neglectedly Like things forgotten. 1865G. Macdonald A. Forbes xiv, Seeing..a girl so neglectedly attired. 1887Abp. Benson in Life (1899) II. 139 The peace and stillness and happy neglectedness, so to speak, over all. |