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  1. ignored, neglected, unheededadjective

    disregarded

    "his cries were unheeded"; "Shaw's neglected one-act comedy, `A Village Wooing'"; "her ignored advice"

    Antonyms:
    noticed, cared-for

    Synonyms:
    ignored, unattended, unheeded

  2. neglected, unattendedadjective

    lacking a caretaker

    "a neglected child"; "many casualties were lying unattended"

    Antonyms:
    noticed, cared-for

    Synonyms:
    ignored, unattended, unheeded

How to use neglected in a sentence?

  1. Peter Leutscher:

    This overlap of HIV and schistosomiasis is really striking, it's a neglected risk factor.

  2. Kamala Harris:

    We need a Green New Deal based in climate and environmental justice, which means building a clean economy that protects communities that have been neglected by policymakers for far too long.

  3. Chauncey Wright:

    What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

  4. Environment Minister Gian Luca Galletti:

    Our country is at risk because for years, for decades, we have neglected our land and we have not done preventative work, if I don't paint the walls of my house for three or four years, it's fine for the first few years, but in the third or fourth they go to ruin. This is to some extent the snapshot of our country.

  5. Zhang Liangui:

    The fact that North Koreans are running over the border to China shows that North Korea's regulation of the border is seriously problematic, they have neglected it.

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