dereliction English

Meaning dereliction meaning

What does dereliction mean?

dereliction

— noun willful negligence

— noun (= delinquency, willful neglect) 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

Synonyms dereliction synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as dereliction?

dereliction English » English

omission

neglect

failure

delinquency

willful neglect

negligence

default

abandonment

unconscientiousness

straying

slovenliness

sloppiness

slight care

slight

shirking

remissness

ravaging

ravage

preterition

omittance

nonperformance

nonobservance

nonfeasance

non-observance

negligency

mistake

leaving

laxity

inattentiveness

inadvertence

heedlessness

havoc

disaggregation

dilapidation

deviation

devastation

desolation

desertion

depopulation

defection

decomposition

decay

criminal negligence

carelessness

breakup

breakdown

break-up

Topics dereliction topics

What do people use dereliction to talk about?

Social behavior Behavior Love

Abandon

• What words refer to the act of abandoning something?
  abandonment dereliction desertion