dereliction :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

Nouns (3)

n. willful negligence

n. a tendency to be negligent and uncaring; "he inherited his delinquency from his father"; "his derelictions were not really intended as crimes"; "his adolescent protest consisted of willful neglect of all his responsibilities"

Verbs (0)

There are no items for this category

Adverbs (0)

There are no items for this category

Adjectives (0)

There are no items for this category

Fuzzynyms (22)

force, forcefulness, strength

n. physical energy or intensity; "he hit with all the force he could muster"; "it was destroyed by the strength of the gale"; "a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man"

mess, messiness, muss, mussiness

n. a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed"

clutter, jumble, muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter, smother

n. a confused multitude of things

bankruptcy, failure

n. inability to discharge all your debts as they come due; "the company had to declare bankruptcy"; "fraudulent loans led to the failure of many banks"

breakdown, crack-up

n. a mental or physical breakdown

recidivism

n. habitual relapse into crime

fault

n. (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area); "he served too many double faults"

failure

n. an unexpected omission; "he resented my failure to return his call"; "the mechanic's failure to check the brakes"

malpractice

n. a wrongful act that the actor had no right to do; improper professional conduct; "he charged them with electoral malpractices"

Synonyms (0)

There are no items for this category

Antonyms (0)

There are no items for this category

exhilarated > ungregarious > utopian > roar > engaging > throw into disorder > change by reversal > dereliction

Using Lexipedia you can visually map out words and concepts in a clean and friendly interface. No more thumbing through a dictionary, or fumbling through a single-word search; with Lexipedia you can see related words, synonyms, antonyms and fuzzynyms. And best of all, it's absolutely free!