Word Meanings - INAPPLICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want of application, attention, or diligence; negligence; indolence.

Related words: (words related to INAPPLICATION)

• NEGLIGENCE
  The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness. 2. An act or instance of negligence or carelessness. remarking his beauties, ... I must also point out his negligences and
• DILIGENCE
  Process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings. To do one's diligence, give diligence, use diligence, to exert one's self; to make interested
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• INDOLENCE
  1. Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc. I have ease, if it may not rather be called indolence. Bp. Hough. 2. The quality or condition of being indolent; inaction, or want of exertion of body or mind, proceeding
• ATTENTION
  1. The act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; exclusive or special consideration; earnest consideration, thought, or regard; obedient or affectionate heed; the
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• NONATTENTION
  Inattention.
• INDILIGENCE
  Want of diligence. B. Jonson.
• MISAPPLICATION
  A wrong application. Sir T. Browne.
• INAPPLICATION
  Want of application, attention, or diligence; negligence; indolence.
• INATTENTION
  Want of attention, or failure to pay attention; disregard; heedlessness; neglect. Novel lays attract our ravished ears; But old, the mind inattention hears. Pope. Syn. -- Inadvertence; heedlessness; negligence; carelessness; disregard; remissness;