🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

उपेक्षा करना

Pronunciation / Transliteration: upeksha karna

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Neglect/nɪˈɡlɛkt/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"हमें अपनी पढ़ाई की उपेक्षा नहीं करनी चाहिए।"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To fail to care for properly; to give too little attention or respect to someone or something.

    "If you neglect your house plants, they will eventually wither and die."
As noun
  1. 1

    The state or fact of being uncared for, ignored, or disregarded.

    "The historic building fell into a state of severe neglect over the decades."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'neglect' originates from the Latin 'neglectus', which is the past participle of 'neglegere', meaning 'to disregard'. It entered the English language in the late Middle Ages, evolving to encompass both the act of failing to care for something and the state of being uncared for.

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