Meanings
present singular third person omits · participle present omitting · participle past omitted · past omitted
- intransitiveTo fail to perform.
She climbed out of the car and carefully omitted to lock it. She never left anything of value in it, and she found that it was to her advantage if people didn’t have to break anything in order to find that out.
1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, William Heinemann Ltd, page 136 - transitivelawTo delete or remove; to strike.
In the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, omit sections 146(4) and 147(3) (homosexual acts as grounds for dismissal from the crew of merchant ships).
2017, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Merchant Shipping (Homosexual Conduct) Act 2017, section 1
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo leave out or exclude.
verbTo neglect or take no notice of.
More synonyms by meaning
verbprevent from being included or considered or accepted
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinomittō“to let go”
- Middle Englishomitten
- Englishomit
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”.
More words from Middle English, Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek παραλείπω
- παραλείπω (paraleípō)to leave out or exclude
Bulgarian пропускам, не включвам
- пропускам (propuskam)to leave out or exclude
- не включвам (ne vključvam)to leave out or exclude
- пренебрегвам (prenebregvam)to neglect or take no notice of
Catalan ometre
- ometreto leave out or exclude
Chinese Mandarin 省略, 遗漏
- 省略 (shěnglüè)to leave out or exclude
- 遗漏 (yí lòu)to neglect or take no notice of
Czech vynechat
- vynechatto leave out or exclude
Danish udelade
- udeladeto leave out or exclude
Dutch weglaten, nalaten
- weglatento leave out or exclude
- nalatento fail to perform
- verwaarlozento neglect or take no notice of
Esperanto ellasi, preterlasi
- ellasito leave out or exclude
- preterlasito leave out or exclude
Finnish jättää pois, olla tekemättä
- jättää poisto leave out or exclude
- olla tekemättäto fail to perform
- jättää tekemättäto fail to perform
- ohittaato neglect or take no notice of
- jättää huomiottato neglect or take no notice of
French omettre
- omettreto leave out or exclude
German weglassen, auslassen
- weglassento leave out or exclude
- auslassento leave out or exclude
Greek παραλείπω
- παραλείπω (paraleípo)to leave out or exclude
Hungarian kihagy
- kihagyto leave out or exclude
Italian omettere, tralasciare
- omettereto leave out or exclude
- tralasciareto leave out or exclude
Japanese 省略する, 抜かす
- 省略する (shōryaku suru)to leave out or exclude
- 抜かす (nukasu)to leave out or exclude
Korean 생략하다, 제외하다
- 생략하다 (saengnyakhada)to leave out or exclude
- 제외하다 (je'oehada)to leave out or exclude
Latin omittō, praetermittō
- omittōto leave out or exclude
- praetermittōto leave out or exclude
Māori whakamutu, whāmutu
- whakamututo leave out or exclude
- whāmututo leave out or exclude
- kapeto leave out or exclude
- tīpokato leave out or exclude
Norwegian unnta, hoppe over
- unntato leave out or exclude
- hoppe overto leave out or exclude
Polish pomijać, pominąć
- pomijaćto leave out or exclude
- pominąćto leave out or exclude
- opuszczaćto leave out or exclude
- opuścićto leave out or exclude
- zaniedbywaćto fail to perform
- zaniedbaćto fail to perform
- ignorowaćto neglect or take no notice of
- zignorowaćto neglect or take no notice of
Portuguese omitir
- omitirto leave out or exclude
Romanian omite, lăsa la o parte
- omiteto leave out or exclude
- lăsa la o parteto leave out or exclude
- omiteto fail to perform
- neglijato fail to perform
Russian пропуска́ть, пропусти́ть
- пропуска́ть (propuskátʹ)to leave out or exclude
- пропусти́ть (propustítʹ)to leave out or exclude
- не включа́ть (ne vključátʹ)to leave out or exclude
- не включи́ть (ne vključítʹ)to leave out or exclude
- упускать (upuskatʹ)to leave out or exclude
- пренебрега́ть (prenebregátʹ)to fail to perform
- пренебре́чь (prenebréčʹ)to fail to perform
- упуска́ть (upuskátʹ)to fail to perform
- упусти́ть (upustítʹ)to fail to perform
- игнори́ровать (ignorírovatʹ)to neglect or take no notice of
- проигнори́ровать (proignorírovatʹ)to neglect or take no notice of
Spanish omitir, dejar de lado
- omitirto leave out or exclude
- dejar de ladoto leave out or exclude
- dejarse en el tinteroto leave out or exclude
- hacer caso omiso deto leave out or exclude
- preterirto leave out or exclude
Swedish utelämna
- utelämnato leave out or exclude
Turkish hariç bırakmak, ihmal etmek
- hariç bırakmakto leave out or exclude
- ihmal etmekto leave out or exclude
Ukrainian упускати, упустити
- упускати (upuskaty)to leave out or exclude
- упустити (upustyty)to leave out or exclude
- не включати (ne vključaty)to leave out or exclude
- не включити (ne vključyty)to leave out or exclude
- оминати (omynaty)to leave out or exclude
- оминути (omynuty)to leave out or exclude
- пропускати (propuskaty)to leave out or exclude
- пропустити (propustyty)to leave out or exclude
- нехтувати (nextuvaty)to fail to perform
Vietnamese lược, lược bỏ
- lượcto leave out or exclude
- lược bỏto leave out or exclude
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Cite this entry
omit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/omit
“omit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/omit. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “omit,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/omit.
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