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Synonyms of neglected in English:

neglected


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See Spanish definition of abandonado

adjective

1‘RSPCA officers found more than eighty neglected, underweight, and suffering animals’

SYNONYMS
uncared for, mistreated, abandoned, forsaken
ANTONYMS

well cared for

2‘a neglected 16th-century cottage’

SYNONYMS
run down, derelict, dilapidated, tumbledown, ramshackle, untended, unmaintained
overgrown, uncultivated, unweeded, wild
Australian, New Zealand informal rumpty
rare weedgrown
ANTONYMS

neat, well tended

3‘a neglected masterpiece of seventeenth-century devotional prose’

SYNONYMS
disregarded, forgotten, overlooked, ignored, unrecognized, unnoticed, unsung, underestimated, undervalued, unappreciated, passed over, spurned
out in the cold