omit
UK /əʊˈmɪt/ · US /oʊˈmɪt/ verb
Forms omits omitting omitted
- verb (transitive) To leave out or exclude.
- verb (intransitive) To fail to perform.
- verb (transitive, law, of text) To delete or remove; to strike.
- verb (transitive, rare) To neglect or take no notice of.
Synonyms
leave off disregard ignore pass turn a blind eye miss out except exclude leave out miss off skip take out neglect pretermit drop miss overlook overleap
Antonyms
Etymology
At least by 1422, from late Middle English omitten, borrowed from Latin omittō (“to let go”), from ob- + mittō (“to send”), but also had the connotations “to fail to perform” and “to neglect”.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop.
- verb To pass by; to forbear or fail to perform or to make use of; to leave undone; to neglect.
Etymology [L. omittere, omissum; ob (see Ob- + mittere to cause to go, let go, send. See Mission.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “omit”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details