Neglect means to leave uncared for or to leave undone.

Neglect may also refer to:

• Child neglect, a form of child abuse in the wide sense, where the responsible adults fail to take proper care of their children
• Criminal negligence where the criminal law holds people at fault for their failures to act
• Hemispatial neglect which is a neurological condition
• Negligence which is where the civil law requires those at fault to compensate their victims