descuidar
Spanish, verb/deskwiˈdaɾ/
descuidar is a Spanish verb meaning “to relieve from care” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Perder durante un lapso de tiempo la atención sobre algo a lo que se le debiera dar”.
What does descuidar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to relieve from care
- 2
to neglect
- 3
to not think
- 4
to get sloppy, to get or grow careless
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Perder durante un lapso de tiempo la atención sobre algo a lo que se le debiera dar.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of descuidar
- descuido first-person present singular
- descuidé first-person preterite singular
- descuidado participle past
- descuidando gerund
- descuidada feminine participle past
- descuidados masculine participle past
- descuidadas feminine participle past
- descuidas indicative informal present
- descuidás indicative informal present
- descuida indicative present singular
- descuidamos first-person indicative plural
- descuidáis indicative plural present
- descuidan indicative plural present
- descuidaba first-person imperfect indicative
- descuidabas imperfect indicative second-person
- descuidábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- descuidabais imperfect indicative plural
- descuidaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce descuidar?
- /deskwiˈdaɾ/
- [d̪es.kwiˈð̞aɾ]
- [d̪eskwiˈð̞aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to descuidar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is descuidar in Spanish?
descuidar appears 1.3 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).