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remiss 音標拼音: [rim'ɪs] a. 怠慢的,不小心的,遲緩的,疏忽的 怠慢的,不小心的,遲緩的,疏忽的 remiss adj 1: failing in what duty requires; " derelict ( or delinquent) in his duty"; " neglectful of his duties"; " remiss of you not to pay your bills" [ synonym: { derelict}, { delinquent}, { neglectful}, { remiss}] Remiss \ Re* miss"\, n. The act of being remiss; inefficiency; failure. [ Obs.] " Remisses of laws." -- Puttenham. [ 1913 Webster]
Remiss \ Re* miss"\ ( r?- m? s"), a. [ L. remissus, p. p. of remittere to send back, relax. See { Remit}.] Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. [ 1913 Webster] Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] These nervous, bold; those languid and remiss. -- Roscommon. [ 1913 Webster] Its motion becomes more languid and remiss. -- Woodward. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Slack; dilatory; slothful; negligent; careless; neglectful; inattentive; heedles; thoughtless. [ 1913 Webster] 87 Moby Thesaurus words for " remiss": Micawberish, backward, behindhand, bone- lazy, cadging, careless, culpably negligent, dallying, delaying, delinquent, derelict, dilatory, dillydallying, disregardful, do- nothing, doless, dronish, drony, easy, easygoing, ergophobic, faineant, foot- dragging, forgetful, good- for- nothing, heedless, impotent, imprecise, inadvertent, inattentive, indifferent, indolent, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, laissez- faire, lax, lazy, lenient, lingering, loitering, loose, neglectful, neglecting, negligent, nonaggressive, noninterfering, nonrestrictive, off- guard, overindulgent, overly permissive, overpermissive, parasitic, permissive, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, regardless, relaxed, scamping, scrounging, shiftless, shuffling, skimping, slack, slighting, slipshod, sloppy, slothful, slow, sluggish, slurring, soft, sponging, thoughtless, uncircumspect, unenterprising, unguarded, unheeding, unmindful, unrestrained, unrigorous, unthinking, unwary, unwatchful, weak, work- shy
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