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Negligible vs Neglective - What's the difference?

negligible | neglective |

As adjectives the difference between negligible and neglective

is that negligible is able to be ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern while neglective is (archaic) neglectful.

negligible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to be ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.
    • We found errors, but their effects were negligible .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=April 11 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Mario Balotelli replaced Tevez but his contribution was so negligible that he suffered the indignity of being substituted himself as time ran out, a development that encapsulated a wretched 90 minutes for City and boss Roberto Mancini. }}

    Related terms

    * negligent * neglected

    Synonyms

    * ignorable * neglectable * trivial * See also

    Antonyms

    * important * significant * innegligible * unignorable

    neglective

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) neglectful
    • Neglective of their own children. — Fuller.
    (Webster 1913)