[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

negligent \neg"ligent\, a. f. n'egligent, l. negligens,p.
   pr. of negligere. see neglect.
   apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized by
   negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing
   lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order. "be thou
   negligent of fame." --swift.
   1913 webster

         he that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far
         from being poor.                         --rambler.
   1913 webster

   syn: careles; heedless; neglectful; regardless; thoughtless;
        indifferent; inattentive; remiss.
        1913 webster
see also:
neglect 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

negligent
     adj 1: characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern;
            "negligent parents"; "negligent of detail"; "negligent
            in his correspondence" ant: diligent
     2: marked by insufficient care or attention; "a negligent
        housekeeper"; "negligent about personal cleanliness"
see also:
diligent 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

170 moby thesaurus words for "negligent":
   apathetic, approximate, approximative, ataractic, beat-up,
   bedraggled, behindhand, blase, blowzy, botched, bungled, butchered,
   careless, casual, chintzy, culpably negligent, delinquent,
   derelict, devil-may-care, dilapidated, disinterested,
   dispassionate, disregardant, disregardful, distracted, distrait,
   drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, easy, easygoing, feckless,
   frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fumbled, grasshopper, grubby,
   happy-go-lucky, heedless, ill-advised, ill-considered,
   ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-done, ill-executed, ill-managed,
   impolitic, impotent, imprecise, improvident, in rags, inaccurate,
   inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, inconstant, incorrect,
   incurious, indifferent, inexact, inexcitable, informal,
   inobservant, insouciant, lackadaisical, laissez-faire, lax,
   lenient, listless, loose, lumpen, messy, mindless, misconducted,
   misdirected, misguided, mismanaged, muffed, murdered, mussy,
   neglectful, neglecting, nonadherent, nonchalant, noncompliant,
   nonconforming, noninterfering, nonobservant, nonrestrictive,
   off-guard, out of line, out of plumb, out of square, out of true,
   overindulgent, overly permissive, overpermissive, perfunctory,
   permissive, pococurante, poky, procrastinating, ragged, raggedy,
   reckless, regardless, relaxed, remiss, ruinous, scamping, scraggly,
   seedy, shabby, shiftless, shoddy, skimping, slack, slatternly,
   slighting, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, slurring, sluttish, soft,
   sordid, spoiled, squalid, tacky, tattered, thoughtless, thriftless,
   turned-off, unanxious, uncircumspect, uncompliant, unconcerned,
   unconforming, undiscriminating, uneconomical, unfactual,
   unfaithful, unguarded, unheedful, unheeding, uninterested, unkempt,
   unloyal, unmarking, unmindful, unneat, unnoticing, unnoting,
   unobservant, unobserving, unprecise, unproviding, unremarking,
   unrestrained, unrigorous, unsightly, unsolicitous, unthinking,
   unthrifty, untidy, untrue, unwary, unwatchful, weak

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