Vocabulary
Negligent
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
failing to take proper care over something.
Urdu meaning
بے پروا، غافل، غیر محتاط عاقل
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Their rights and liberties are trampled upon by organised criminal gangs while the local bureaucracy and police remain criminally negligent or complicit.
- An overconfident and negligent pilot tried to descend sharply from an unusual height close to the airport, apparently disregarding repeated advice from air traffic control to descend gradually by taking another round.
- The law of tort has also provided people in such metropolises with a `sword and shield` to protect and recompense them for losses and injuries suffered at the hands of inept and negligent public and private providers of goods and services.
- Clearly, the state has been criminally negligent in enforcing the rights of these hapless women largely on account of the substantial influence that the local feudal-tribal patriarchy exercises over social policy and governance.
Synonyms
careless, failing to take proper care, remiss, neglectful, lax, irresponsible, inattentive
Antonyms
careful, attentive, conscientious
Curator example
“the council had been negligent in its supervision of the children in care”
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