Synonyms for Negligent:

• adj.

  •accidental (adjective)
  • inadvertent.
  •all (adjective)
  • negligent.
  •careless (adjective)
  • more uncircumspect,
  • in-different,
  • un-circumspect,
  • in considerate,
  • more pococurante,
  • injudicious,
  • offhand,
  • more unreflective,
  • un circumspect,
  • un reflective,
  • unguarded,
  • most napping,
  • in judicious,
  • indolent,
  • un-reflective,
  • in different,
  • unheeding,
  • in-considerate,
  • in-accurate,
  • more napping,
  • most pococurante,
  • in-judicious,
  • most unreflective,
  • in discreet,
  • un guarded,
  • most uncircumspect,
  • napping,
  • in-discreet,
  • un heeding,
  • un-observant,
  • in accurate,
  • un observant,
  • un-guarded,
  • un-heeding.
  •careless, indifferent (adjective)
  • lax,
  • derelict,
  • slack,
  • sloppy,
  • slovenly,
  • Discinct,
  • inconsiderate,
  • inattentive,
  • neglectful,
  • unmindful,
  • incurious,
  • cursory,
  • unheedful,
  • behindhand,
  • Disregardful.
  •delinquent (adjective)
  • more behind,
  • un-paid,
  • over due,
  • more defaultant,
  • most behind,
  • most defaultant,
  • un paid,
  • unpaid,
  • most procrastinating,
  • more procrastinating,
  • de relict,
  • re-prehensible,
  • redhanded,
  • red handed,
  • re prehensible,
  • over-due,
  • most offending,
  • de-relict,
  • more offending.
  •devil-may-care (adjective)
  • devil may care,
  • free easy,
  • happy go lucky.
  •dilatory (adjective)
  • unhasty,
  • Moratory,
  • laggard,
  • Snail-like,
  • time-wasting.
  •disregardful (adjective)
  • dis-regardful,
  • dis regardful.
  •forgetful (adjective)
  • more woolgathering,
  • more airheaded,
  • out lunch,
  • in-attentive,
  • more nirvanic,
  • pre-occupied,
  • asleep the job,
  • most airheaded,
  • most woolgathering,
  • out it,
  • be mused,
  • most amnemonic,
  • like absentminded professor,
  • out to lunch,
  • un-witting,
  • like absent minded professor,
  • be-mused,
  • like an absentminded professor,
  • like an absent minded professor,
  • more mooning,
  • most amnesic,
  • more amnesic,
  • most nirvanic,
  • like absent-minded professor,
  • not job,
  • most mooning,
  • asleep job,
  • more amnemonic,
  • not on job,
  • un witting,
  • in attentive,
  • not the job,
  • pipe dreaming,
  • pre occupied.
  •harum-scarum (adjective)
  • flighty,
  • scatty,
  • light-minded,
  • harumscarum.
  •heedless (adjective)
  • asleep the switch,
  • goofing off,
  • more daydreaming,
  • asleep switch,
  • un-caring,
  • most daydreaming,
  • un caring,
  • most precipitate,
  • fast loose,
  • most irreflective,
  • more irreflective.
  •ignorant (adjective)
  • unaware.
  •improvident (adjective)
  • uneconomical.
  •inadvertent (adjective)
  • un-designed,
  • unthought,
  • not purpose,
  • un devised,
  • un premeditated,
  • un-thought,
  • un intended,
  • most unthought,
  • un-planned,
  • un-devised,
  • un designed,
  • un-intentional,
  • in-advertent,
  • un-intended,
  • un planned,
  • in advertent,
  • un thought,
  • un intentional,
  • un-premeditated,
  • more unthought.
  •inattentive (adjective)
  • dreamy,
  • befuddled,
  • preoccupied,
  • unconscious,
  • uninterested,
  • Absent-minded,
  • disinterested,
  • detached,
  • faraway,
  • wandering,
  • distracted,
  • aloof,
  • study at remiss,
  • absent,
  • Ignoring.
  •incautious (adjective)
  • in-cautious,
  • more unwatchful,
  • most fast and loose,
  • most ill-judged,
  • sticking neck out,
  • more ill-judged,
  • most foot-in-mouth,
  • more foot-in-mouth,
  • un watchful,
  • more unalert,
  • most unwatchful,
  • sticking one neck out,
  • most fast-and-loose,
  • un-vigilant,
  • sticking ones neck out,
  • ill advised,
  • in cautious,
  • more fast-and-loose,
  • illjudged,
  • most illjudged,
  • more illjudged,
  • un-alert,
  • foot in mouth,
  • most unalert,
  • more fast and loose,
  • more unvigilant,
  • most foot in mouth,
  • most ill judged,
  • ill judged,
  • more foot in mouth,
  • un vigilant,
  • more ill judged,
  • un alert,
  • illadvised,
  • most unvigilant,
  • sticking one's neck out,
  • un-watchful.
  •lax (adjective)
  • more nonspecific,
  • in definite,
  • more overindulgent,
  • in-definite,
  • over-indulgent,
  • most nonspecific,
  • over indulgent,
  • non specific,
  • more imprecise,
  • most overindulgent,
  • most imprecise.
  •loose (adjective)
  • high living,
  • swinging.
  •mindless (adjective)
  • un-intelligent,
  • un intelligent,
  • more nitwitted,
  • most nitwitted,
  • spacedout,
  • more brutish,
  • witless,
  • most brutish.
  •neglectful (adjective)
  • clumsy,
  • senile,
  • haphazard,
  • hit-and-miss,
  • bumbling,
  • shoddy,
  • reckless.
  •nonchalant (adjective)
  • dis-impassioned,
  • dis impassioned,
  • in curious,
  • un-excited,
  • un impressible,
  • un-troubled,
  • un emotional,
  • most unexcited,
  • un troubled,
  • un perturbed,
  • most unimpressible,
  • more disimpassioned,
  • dis-interested,
  • dis-passionate,
  • un feeling,
  • effortless,
  • in-curious,
  • un-ruffled,
  • un-impressible,
  • un-emotional,
  • un ruffled,
  • un flappable,
  • un-perturbed,
  • more unexcited,
  • dis interested,
  • most disimpassioned,
  • more unimpressible,
  • dis passionate,
  • insouciant,
  • un excited.
  •oblivious (adjective)
  • in-sensible,
  • most inconversant,
  • most overlooking,
  • over-looking,
  • un instructed,
  • more unnoticing,
  • most unrecognizing,
  • more overlooking,
  • un-familiar,
  • most blundering,
  • un familiar,
  • un noticing,
  • most undiscerning,
  • un-noticing,
  • un-acquainted,
  • in cognizant,
  • in-conversant,
  • more forgetting,
  • in-cognizant,
  • un acquainted,
  • more unrecognizing,
  • un-instructed,
  • unfamiliar,
  • un conscious,
  • more blundering,
  • most forgetting,
  • most unnoticing,
  • over looking,
  • in conversant,
  • more inconversant,
  • un-discerning,
  • more undiscerning,
  • un-conscious,
  • in sensible,
  • un discerning,
  • un recognizing,
  • un-recognizing.
  •perfunctory (adjective)
  • un interested,
  • stereo typed,
  • in-voluntary,
  • phoning in,
  • un-interested,
  • in voluntary,
  • stocker,
  • laidback.
  •reckless (adjective)
  • hectic,
  • rash,
  • irresponsible,
  • imprudent,
  • wild,
  • frantic,
  • overventuresome,
  • indifferent,
  • daring,
  • brash,
  • foolhardy,
  • uncareful.
  •regardless (adjective)
  • dis-regarding,
  • more disregarding,
  • most nonobservant,
  • most disregarding,
  • more nonobservant,
  • non observant,
  • dis regarding,
  • non-observant,
  • in sensitive,
  • in-sensitive.
  •slipshod (adjective)
  • messedup,
  • most fouled-up,
  • most fouledup,
  • most fouled up,
  • junkier,
  • more screwed up,
  • most messedup,
  • un-kempt,
  • most unmeticulous,
  • screwed-up,
  • most botched,
  • more messed up,
  • more unmeticulous,
  • most messed-up,
  • more unthorough,
  • un tidier,
  • un systematic,
  • un-kemptest,
  • more screwed-up,
  • screwedup,
  • most screwed up,
  • un-tidier,
  • more botched,
  • un tidiest,
  • more fouledup,
  • be draggled,
  • un meticulous,
  • junky,
  • junkiest,
  • more screwedup,
  • un tidy,
  • most unthorough,
  • un-systematic,
  • more messed-up,
  • most screwedup,
  • be-draggled,
  • fouledup,
  • un kemptest,
  • un-meticulous,
  • un kempter,
  • most screwed-up,
  • more fouled up,
  • un kempt,
  • un-kempter,
  • more messedup,
  • unsystematic,
  • un-tidiest,
  • un-tidy,
  • most messed up,
  • more fouled-up,
  • fly by night.
  •slovenly (adjective)
  • topsyturvy,
  • down at the heel,
  • grody.
  •slow (adjective)
  • slowest,
  • slow-moving,
  • gradual,
  • snaillike,
  • tortoiselike.
  •slow-footed (adjective)
  • slowfooted,
  • slow footed.
  •slow-going (adjective)
  • slow going.
  •slow-paced (adjective)
  • slowpaced,
  • slow paced.
  •thoughtless (adjective)
  • Hot-headed,
  • lamebrained,
  • unreasoning,
  • asocial,
  • anti-social,
  • emptyheaded.
  •unaware (adjective)
  • in a daze,
  • deaf to,
  • not cognizant,
  • out cold,
  • un-enlightened,
  • un aware,
  • un-aware,
  • un suspecting,
  • un-suspecting,
  • un enlightened,
  • in daze.
  •unconcerned (adjective)
  • hard hearted,
  • most unbothered,
  • un sympathetic,
  • un-moved,
  • un bothered,
  • re-served,
  • more hard hearted,
  • more unworried,
  • most hard hearted,
  • un-involved,
  • un concerned,
  • re served,
  • un-concerned,
  • un-worried,
  • un worried,
  • more unbothered,
  • most hard-hearted,
  • un involved,
  • more hard-hearted,
  • unbothered,
  • un-bothered,
  • most unworried.
  •uninformed (adjective)
  • un briefed,
  • in dark,
  • un educated,
  • more unbriefed,
  • un-schooled,
  • un schooled,
  • un-informed,
  • un-educated,
  • most unbriefed,
  • un-briefed,
  • un informed.
  •unknowing (adjective)
  • un-knowing,
  • un knowing.
  •unmindful (adjective)
  • un-mindful,
  • un mindful.
  •unprofessional (adjective)
  • non-expert,
  • more unfitting,
  • un-professional,
  • in-competent,
  • non expert,
  • in adequate,
  • in efficient,
  • un ethical,
  • un worthier,
  • un-fitting,
  • in experienced,
  • un fitting,
  • in-expert,
  • inefficient,
  • un-worthiest,
  • in-efficient,
  • in expert,
  • more nonexpert,
  • more amateur,
  • most unfitting,
  • un professional,
  • most nonexpert,
  • un trained,
  • in-experienced,
  • un worthiest,
  • un suitable,
  • in competent,
  • most amateur,
  • un worthy,
  • un-worthier,
  • in-adequate,
  • un-ethical,
  • un-suitable,
  • un-trained.
  •unthinking (adjective)
  • un thinking,
  • un meant,
  • un wise,
  • un tactful,
  • un-wisest,
  • un wisest,
  • un-wiser,
  • un-thinking,
  • un-meant,
  • un-tactful,
  • un wiser.
  •unthoughtful (adjective)
  • un-thoughtful,
  • un thoughtful.
  •unthrifty (adjective)
  • un thrifty,
  • un-thrifty,
  • un thriftiest,
  • un thriftier,
  • un-thriftier,
  • un-thriftiest.
  •unwary (adjective)
  • unsuspicious,
  • unadvised.

• adv.

  •off-guard (adverb)
  • offguard,
  • flat footed,
  • un ready,
  • un-ready.

• adv

  •off-guard (adverb)
  • flat-footed,
  • off guard,
  • unready,
  • flatfooted.

• n.

  •
  • complacency,
  • complacent,
  • casual,
  • lackadaisical,
  • like a bull in a china shop.
  •careless (noun)
  • mindless.
  •negligent (noun)
  • hit-and-run.

• Other synonyms:

  •extravagant
  • thriftless.
  •Other relevant words:
  • airy,
  • silly,
  • in the clouds,
  • unprincipled,
  • blase,
  • elucidate,
  • inattentiveness,
  • unaffectionate,
  • botched,
  • misguided,
  • chintzy,
  • impolitic,
  • relaxed,
  • explicate,
  • ruinous,
  • recklessness,
  • frowzy,
  • slouchy,
  • down-at-the-heel,
  • undignified,
  • dragging,
  • floppy,
  • seedy,
  • slow-paced,
  • inadvertence,
  • dispassionate,
  • slothful,
  • mad,
  • slatternly,
  • illustrate,
  • expand,
  • weak,
  • lazy,
  • easy going,
  • scatterbrained,
  • dangerous,
  • poky,
  • musing,
  • heedlessness,
  • unconsidered,
  • non-selective,
  • unnoting,
  • misconducted,
  • uncritical,
  • carefree,
  • foolish,
  • not mind,
  • feckless,
  • impotent,
  • comply,
  • nonconforming,
  • unfastidious,
  • deaf,
  • adjourn,
  • flexible,
  • squalid,
  • messy,
  • Muffed,
  • unfaithful,
  • let slip,
  • listless,
  • turned-off,
  • amnesiac,
  • Skimping,
  • uncaring,
  • laissez faire,
  • unfactual,
  • dreaming,
  • defer,
  • sluggish,
  • ataractic,
  • permissive,
  • tacky,
  • Unobserving,
  • in dreamland,
  • blowzy,
  • unknowing,
  • draggled,
  • unkempt,
  • goldbrick,
  • be negligent,
  • undiscriminating,
  • write,
  • grasshopper,
  • daredevil,
  • Inobservant,
  • interpret,
  • neglect,
  • approximate,
  • carelessness,
  • promiscuous,
  • beat-up,
  • indiscriminate,
  • happy-go-lucky,
  • inexact,
  • unseemly,
  • unscholarly,
  • procrastinator,
  • slow-footed,
  • Unthrifty,
  • imprudence,
  • inaccurate,
  • trifler,
  • Slurring,
  • dodger,
  • nonrestrictive,
  • feebleness,
  • uninformed,
  • thoughtlessness,
  • scamping,
  • postpone,
  • unbefitting,
  • otiose,
  • clarify,
  • remote,
  • bedraggled,
  • scraggly,
  • unconscientious,
  • cosset,
  • Inexcitable,
  • sordid,
  • soft,
  • Unsolicitous,
  • dilatory,
  • lay aside,
  • easygoing,
  • uncompliant,
  • untrue,
  • commentate,
  • approximative,
  • unbecoming,
  • impulsive,
  • inconstant,
  • unanxious,
  • sluttish,
  • procrastinate,
  • put aside,
  • lose sight of,
  • idle,
  • mussy,
  • slut,
  • negligence,
  • lumpen,
  • absentminded,
  • ill-managed,
  • annotate,
  • ill-done,
  • idler,
  • unsightly,
  • compose,
  • harum-scarum,
  • shiftless,
  • madcap,
  • slacker,
  • lenient,
  • unthoughtful,
  • unwise,
  • distrait,
  • Unprecise,
  • ragged,
  • unconforming,
  • apathetic,
  • insouciance,
  • under the influence,
  • supine,
  • non-discriminatory,
  • untidy,
  • do-nothing,
  • unethical,
  • murdered,
  • unselective,
  • unloyal,
  • ill-contrived,
  • explain,
  • easy,
  • Defaulting,
  • spoiled,
  • lethargic,
  • indulge,
  • unfussy,
  • incaution,
  • frumpy,
  • ill-considered,
  • sketchy,
  • suspend,
  • bungler,
  • shabby,
  • bungled,
  • slighting,
  • tattered,
  • ill-devised,
  • mismanaged,
  • retard,
  • overpermissive,
  • neglecter,
  • breakneck,
  • Neglecting,
  • spotty,
  • malingerer,
  • misdirected,
  • Fumbled,
  • unworthy,
  • unrestrained,
  • raggedy,
  • linger,
  • pamper,
  • ignorer,
  • unobservant,
  • absorbed,
  • noncompliant,
  • expound,
  • Procrastinating,
  • hare-brained,
  • incorrect,
  • informal,
  • grubby,
  • dilapidated,
  • shirker,
  • indulgent,
  • stupid,
  • out of true,
  • develop,
  • frumpish,
  • failing,
  • frowsy,
  • take care of,
  • improper,
  • in rags,
  • light,
  • let go,
  • wool-gathering,
  • ill-advised,
  • abstracted,
  • oscitant,
  • slow-going,
  • Disregarder,
  • indulge in,
  • unneat,
  • Butchered,
  • inattention.

Paraphrases for Negligent:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    neglectful, careless, remiss.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    inadvertent, cavalier, casual, involuntary.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    neglect.
  • Verb, past participle
    neglected, overlooked.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    reckless, sloppy, lax.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    carelessness.

Antonyms for Negligent:

• adj.

  • all
    diligent.
  • careless, indifferent
    careful, caring, attentive, mindful, successful.
  • Other antonyms:
    interested, watchful, regarding, observant, provident, punctilious, vigilant, concerned, regardful, prompt, foresighted, thoughtful, wide-awake, untiring, thinking, responsible, ready, forethoughtful, on hand.