Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Characterized by omission or omitting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Leaving out; neglectful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Leaving out; omitting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective tending to
omit things - adjective caused by
omission
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by omissions
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Examples
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Now that's what can be called an awfully biased, selective, omissive, ... p.o.v. There's a hell of a lot more for critical issues than this one, and plenty of the others outweigh this one by quite a lot.
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It's human to be biased, selective, ... and therefore omissive, as well as to outright lie, along with also being naive; yes, we can realise these unfortunately are features among humans.
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Articles reporting about the so-called negotiations, but not this unification of the three militant groups and the purpose of the unification are disinforming readers by being omissive in describing what's going on, only reporting what one side, the aggressors 'side, says and not what the other side, the aggressed side, says.
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SO, I'LL stand corrected on the "saviour" perception "bit", but you evidently still haven't been reading much, or you're only reading from sources or providers that are [omissive] about what's really been going on since election day 2008.
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She responded that it was omissive because she told the investigators that she had mentioned Satan and the report didn’t contain that fact.
Freshwater April 29 & 30: Exploiting kids - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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She said that the investigators’ report seemed “omissive” and therefore slanted against Freshwater.
Freshwater April 29 & 30: Exploiting kids - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Millstone pointed to several passages in the investigators’ report that seemed to contradict Frady’s perception of it being “omissive.”
Freshwater April 29 & 30: Exploiting kids - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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a will, which renders me justly responsible for my actions, omissive as well as commissive.
Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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