Word Meanings - NONPREPARATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Neglect or failure to prepare; want of preparation.
Related words: (words related to NONPREPARATION)
- NEGLECTION
The state of being negligent; negligence. Shak. - FAILURE
1. Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops. 2. Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise. 3. Want of success; the state of having failed. 4. Decau, or defect from decay; - PREPARER
One who, or that which, prepares, fits, or makes ready. Wood. - NEGLECTFUL
Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent. Pope. A cold and neglectful countenance. Locke. Though the Romans had no great genius for trade, yet they were not entirely neglectful of it. Arbuthnot. -- Neg*lect"ful*ly, - NEGLECTEDNESS
The state of being neglected. - NEGLECTER
One who neglects. South. - NEGLECT
disregard, neglect, the literal sense prob. neing, not to pick up; nec not, nor (fr. ne not + -que, a particle akin to Goth. -h, -uh, and prob. to E. who; cf. Goth. nih nor) + L. legere to pick up, 1. Not to attend to with due care or attention; - NEGLECTINGLY
Carelessly; heedlessly. Shak. - PREPARATION
The holding over of a note from one chord into the next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock. - NEGLECTIVE
Neglectful. "Neglective of their own children." Fuller. - PREPARED
Made fit or suitable; adapted; ready; as, prepared food; prepared questions. -- Pre*par"ed*ly, adv. Shak. -- Pre*par"ed*ness, n. - PREPARE
1. To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson. Our souls, not yet prepared for upper light. Dryden. 2. To procure - IMPREPARATION
Want of preparation. Hooker. - SELF-NEGLECTING
A neglecting of one's self, or of one's own interests. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. Shak. - DISPREPARE
To render unprepared. Hobbes. - DEFAILURE
Failure. Barrow. - NONPREPARATION
Neglect or failure to prepare; want of preparation.