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To omit is to leave out or exclude.
You omit details from a story, omit a name from a list, omit a step in a process.
The word implies something that could or should have been included but wasn't—whether by choice, accident, or oversight: The report omitted any mention of the scandal.
I omitted the garlic because she's allergic.
Miss or commanding view
- neglectFailure to provide care
- ignoreRefuse to notice
- disregardWillful lack of attention
- bypassRoute that skirts obstacles
skip · miss · forget · gloss over · pass over · pretermit · discount · slight
Bar from participation
- banOfficial restriction on something
- barDrinking establishment
- prohibitFormally disallow
- blockSolid mass, or impede
expel · reject · forbid · blacklist · censor · disallow · veto · embargo
To deliberately exclude
- forgoDeliberately do without
- abstainDeliberately not do
- waiveVoluntarily give up entitlement
- declineDecrease or refuse
refrain · withhold · hold back · spare · dispense with · do without · pass on · opt out
Supervision or inadvertent omission
- slipMinor error or misstep
- lapseBrief failure or expiration
- gapUnfilled space between
- mistakeWrong action or decision
blunder · inadvertence · accidental · unintentional · careless · negligent · remiss · dereliction
overlook
Miss or commanding view
bypass · skip · miss · forget · gloss over · pass over · pretermit · discount · slight · snub
exclude
Bar from participation
block · expel · reject · forbid · blacklist · censor · disallow · veto · embargo · ostracize
skip
To deliberately exclude
decline · refrain · withhold · hold back · spare · dispense with · do without · pass on · opt out · elide
oversight
Supervision or inadvertent omission
mistake · blunder · inadvertence · accidental · unintentional · careless · negligent · remiss · dereliction · failure
- removalremove, elimination, delete, erasing, erase
- exclusionsexclude, exclusion, excluding, except, exception
- deletiondelete, erase, erasure, cross out, strike out
- exclusionexclude, excluded, rule out, banned, bans
- dismissingbrush aside, brush off, wave off, shrug off, blow off
- mistakesmistake, mistakes, slip, error, errors
- intentional omissionPurposely leaving something out
- sins of omissionMoral failures through inaction
- glaring omission