Remiss

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" [syn: {derelict}, {delinquent},
           {neglectful}, {remiss}]
    

Remiss \Re*miss"\, n.
   The act of being remiss; inefficiency; failure. [Obs.]
   "Remisses of laws." --Puttenham.
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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.
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         Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness. --Milton.
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         These nervous, bold; those languid and remiss.
                                                  --Roscommon.
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         Its motion becomes more languid and remiss. --Woodward.
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   Syn: Slack; dilatory; slothful; negligent; careless;
        neglectful; inattentive; heedles; thoughtless.
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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