Negligent

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster

Negligent - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

NEGLIGENT, a.

1. Careless; heedless; apt or accustomed to omit what ought to be done; inattentive to business or necessary concerns. It is applied to a particular instance of neglect, or it denotes habitually careless or inattentive. 2 Chr 29. 2 Pet 1.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent, is not far from being poor.

2. Regardless.

Be thou negligent of fame.

Source of the article

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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