Dictionary Definition
omit
Verb
1 prevent from being included or considered or
accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave
off the top piece" [syn: exclude, except, leave out,
leave
off, take out] [ant:
include]
2 leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss
that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"
[syn: neglect, pretermit, drop, miss, leave out,
overlook, overleap] [ant: attend to]
[also: omitting,
omitted]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
(at least by 1422) Enters Late Middle English, from Latin omittere which means literally “to let go”, from ob- + mittere (“to send”), but also had the connotations to ‘fail to perform’ and ‘to neglect’.Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɪt
Verb
- To leave out or exclude. (most common usage)
- To fail to perform.
- To neglect or take no notice of. (Obscure)
Translations
To leave out or exclude
- Dutch: weglaten
- Finnish: jättää pois
- Russian: гл. пропускать, не включать
To fail to perform
- Russian: пренебрегать, упускать
To neglect or take no notice of
- Dutch: verwaarlozen
Translations to be checked
- ttbc German: verzichten, weglassen
- ttbc Spanish: omitir
- ttbc Nederlands: Weglaten
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abandon, abbreviate, abridge, ban, bar, bar out, blink at, blockade, blot out,
blue-pencil, bowdlerize, cancel, censor, count out, cross out,
cut, cut off, cut out,
debar, dele, delete, discount, disregard, edit, edit out, embargo, eradicate, erase, except, exclude, expunge, expurgate, fail, forget, freeze out, goldbrick, goof off, ignore, jump, keep out, kill, leave, leave loose ends, leave
out, leave undone, let alone, let be, let dangle, let go, let
slide, lock out, malinger, miss, neglect, obliterate, ostracize, overlook, overpass, pass over, pass up,
preclude, pretermit, procrastinate, prohibit, reject, relegate, repudiate, rescind, rub out, send to
Coventry, shirk, shut out,
skip, slack, slight, strike, strike off, strike out,
taboo, trifle, void