Thesaurus / remiss
other words for remiss
MOST RELEVANT
- 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
USE remiss IN A SENTENCE
Join our early testers! See how your sentence looks with different synonyms.
opposites of remiss
MOST RELEVANT
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
I would be remiss if I didn’t get in a little sports mention up high this morning.
BITCOIN, STOCKS AND CRUDE TAKE OFF AS THE MARKETS BRACE FOR A WAVE OF STIMULUS CHECKSBERNHARD WARNERFEBRUARY 8, 2021FORTUNE
I would be remiss if I didn’t give them credit for taking that step in 2019 when they weren’t under the huge pressure that some other brands are under right now.
HE DREAMED OF CREATING HIS OWN AFRICAN SUPERHERO UNIVERSE. NOW IT’S FINALLY PAYING OFF.DAVID BETANCOURTJANUARY 27, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Finally, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that, although I don’t know if you are a “wife” or a woman, there is a substantial lopsided difference in the family workload between men and women.
SHARING THE WORKLOAD AT HOME WHEN ONE CHILD HAS SPECIAL NEEDSMEGHAN LEAHYJANUARY 27, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Chopin's friends were not remiss in exerting themselves to procure him pupils and good fees at the same time.
FREDERICK CHOPIN AS A MAN AND MUSICIANFREDERICK NIECKS
But, however wise in discipline, Peveril and his followers were somewhat remiss in civil policy.
PEVERIL OF THE PEAKSIR WALTER SCOTT
Then, as if recollecting he had been remiss, he assumed a benevolent interest in his companions' affairs.
THE FOURTH ESTATE, VOL. 2ARMANDO PALACIO VALDS
He did not add Israel's obligations to His own, and discharge them too, when they were remiss concerning them.
THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE: THE BOOK OF JOSHUAWILLIAM GARDEN BLAIKIE
"If I have been remiss, the pleasure of a stroll with Itlza must be my excuse," said he humbly.
A PRINCE OF ANAHUACJAMES A. PORTER
But though I learnt only yesterday what you are, I will not be so remiss.
SYBILBENJAMIN DISRAELI
How very remiss of Bowers, particularly as I observe he has provided forks!
BLUEBELLMRS. GEORGE CROFT HUDDLESTON
WORDS RELATED TO REMISS
- 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
- 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.