neglective

English

Etymology

From neglect +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɪˈɡlɛktɪv/
• Hyphenation: ne‧glect‧ive

Adjective

neglective (comparative more neglective, superlative most neglective)

1. (archaic) Neglectful.
   • 1639, Thomas Fuller, “The Common-wealth of the Mammalukes Described, Presenting Us with Many Unexampled Remarkables”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book IV, page 202:

     [I]t is a wonder they ſhould be ſo neglective of their own children.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “neglective”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)