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   Re·miss

   /rəˈmis/

   

   adjective

   • 1. lacking care or attention to duty; negligent: "it would be very remiss of me not to pass on that information"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Latin remissus ‘slackened’, past participle of remittere. The early senses were ‘weakened in color or consistency’ and (in describing sound) ‘faint, soft’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. remissly adverb
   • 2. remissness noun

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • R

     1

   • E

     1

   • M

     3

   • I

     1

   • S

     1

   • S

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