Remiss: alternatives and connections

In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or…

Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; a…

Beforehand; in anticipation.

To raise; to set up; to stir up.

Alt. of Backwards

In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds.

Full of care; anxious; solicitous.

Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted.

Given to consideration or to sober reflection; regardful of consequences or circumstances; circumspect; careful; esp. careful of the r…

Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions.

Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.

A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has happened thr…

Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent.

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.

Fulfilling duty; dutiful; having the sentiments due to a superior, or to one to whom respect or service is owed; obedient; as, a duteo…

To hinder from freedom of thought, speech, or action by something which impedes or confuses mental action; to perplex; to discompose;…