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What is another word for neglectful?

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Failing to take care of matters which require attention

Done or happening without careful consideration of the consequences

Forgetful or careless due to distraction

Not perceptive

Having or showing a lack of intellect, logic or reason

Slow to act

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Failing to take care of matters which require attention

failing to show proper care and attention

unorganized^US

unorganised^UK

careless of one's duty

pell-mell

failing to take proper care

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“I suspect that the neglectful ruination of Havana has served a profoundly ideological purpose.”

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Done or happening without careful consideration of the consequences

sticking one's neck out

not careful

asleep on the job

leading with one's chin

jumping to conclusions

leaving self wide open

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Forgetful or careless due to distraction

with a mind like a sieve

with a memory like a sieve

having a memory like a sieve

asleep on the job

like an absent-minded professor

in a world of your own

mesmerized^US

with your head in the clouds

mesmerised^UK

focused^US

focussed^UK

hypnotized^US

enamored^US

enamoured^UK

hypnotised^UK

lacking concentration

not concentrating

unnoticing

off in a world of one's own

driven to distraction

eat sleep and breathe

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Adjective

Not perceptive

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Having or showing a lack of intellect, logic or reason

dead from the neck up

not the full shilling

thick as two short planks

as thick as two short planks

stupidly irresponsible

a brick short of a load

as green as grass

wet behind the ears

two sandwiches short of a picnic

devoid of intelligence

flaky^UK

away with the fairies

flakey^US

not right in the head

not quite right in the head

not right upstairs

off-the-wall

out there

have bats in the belfry

have kangaroos in the top paddock

not in your right mind

a few cards shy of a full deck

as mad as a March hare

flipped out

deprived of one's wits

one card shy of a full deck

severely mentally ill

one sandwich short of a picnic

a few sandwiches short of a picnic

having kangaroos in the top paddock

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Adjective

Slow to act

labored^US

laboured^UK

groveling^US

grovelling^UK

paralyzed^US

paralysed^UK

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