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Synonyms for remiss
adj careless, thoughtless- any old way
- any which way
- asleep at switch
- asleep on job
- behindhand
- culpable
- daydreaming
- defaultant
- delinquent
- derelict
- dilatory
- disregardful
- fainéant
- forgetful
- heedless
- inattentive
- indifferent
- indolent
- lackadaisical
- lax
- lazy
- neglectful
- negligent
- regardless
- slack
- slapdash
- slipshod
- sloppy
- slothful
- slow
- tardy
- uninterested
- unmindful
- woolgathering
Antonyms for remiss
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.
careless
adjective. without sufficient attention
- absent-minded
- abstracted
- casual
- cursory
- disregardful
- forgetful
- hasty
- heedless
- improvident
- imprudent
- inaccurate
- inadvertent
- incautious
- inconsiderate
- indifferent
- indiscreet
- indolent
- injudicious
- irresponsible
- lackadaisical
- lax
- loose
- mindless
- napping
- negligent
- nonchalant
- oblivious
- offhand
- perfunctory
- pococurante
- reckless
- regardless
- remiss
- slipshod
- sloppy
- thoughtless
- uncircumspect
- unconcerned
- unguarded
- unheeding
- unmindful
- unobservant
- unreflective
- unthinking
- wasteful
derelict
adjective. careless, negligent
dilatory
adjective. procrastinating
forgetful
adjective. tending to not remember
- absent
- absent-minded
- abstracted
- airheaded
- amnemonic
- amnesic
- asleep on the job
- bemused
- careless
- distracted
- dreamy
- heedless
- inattentive
- lax
- like an absent-minded professor
- looking out window
- mooning
- moony
- neglectful
- negligent
- nirvanic
- not on the job
- oblivious
- out of it
- out to lunch
- pipe dreaming
- preoccupied
- remiss
- slack
- sloppy
- unmindful
- unwitting
- woolgathering
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.