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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Remiss \Re*miss"\, noun The act of being remiss; inefficiency; failure. [Obs.] ''Remisses of laws.'' --Puttenham.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Remiss \Re*miss"\ (r?-m?s"), adjective [L. remissus, p. p. of remittere to send back, relax. See {Remit}.] Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow.
Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness. --Milton.
These nervous, bold; those languid and remiss. --Roscommon.
Its motion becomes more languid and remiss. --Woodward.
Syn: Slack; dilatory; slothful; negligent; careless; neglectful; inattentive; heedles; thoughtless.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
remiss
adjective: failing in what duty requires; "derelict (or delinquent) in his duty"; "neglectful of his duties"; "remiss of you not to pay your bills" [syn: {derelict}, {delinquent}, {neglectful}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "remiss": Micawberish, backward, behindhand, bone-lazy, cadging, careless, culpably negligent, dallying, delaying, delinquent, derelict, dilatory, dillydallying, disregardful, do-nothing, doless, dronish, drony, easy, easygoing, ergophobic, faineant, foot-dragging, forgetful, good-for-nothing, heedless, impotent, imprecise, inadvertent, inattentive, indifferent, indolent, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, laissez-faire, lax, lazy, lenient, lingering, loitering, loose, neglectful, neglecting, negligent, nonaggressive, noninterfering, nonrestrictive, off-guard, overindulgent, overly permissive, overpermissive, parasitic, permissive, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, regardless, relaxed, scamping, scrounging, shiftless, shuffling, skimping, slack, slighting, slipshod, sloppy, slothful, slow, sluggish, slurring, soft, sponging, thoughtless, uncircumspect, unenterprising, unguarded, unheeding, unmindful, unrestrained, unrigorous, unthinking, unwary, unwatchful, weak, work-shy
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