omits
Fails to include
Omits means leaves out or fails to include.
Someone omits details from a story, a recipe omits an ingredient, a list omits certain names.
The word can suggest either deliberate exclusion or accidental oversight: She omitted any mention of her ex-husband versus I accidentally omitted the salt.
What's omitted is absent where it might reasonably have appeared.
Misses or surveys
- forgetsLoses from memory
- neglectsFails to care for
- missesFails to connect
- ignoresRefuses to acknowledge
loses · disremembers · lapses
Deliberately leaves out
- dropsDescends or releases
- skipsOmits or hops lightly
- removesTakes something out
- eliminatesRemoves from consideration
cuts · deletes · excises · expunges · precludes · bars · exempts · withholds
overlooks
Misses or surveys
ignores · loses · disremembers · lapses
excludes
Deliberately leaves out
eliminates · cuts · deletes · excises · expunges · precludes · bars · exempts · withholds · redacts
disregards
Fails to consider
sidesteps · skirts · avoids · evades · circumvents · dodges · discounts · undervalues · slights · snubs
- intentional omissionPurposely leaving something out
- sins of omissionMoral failures through inaction
- glaring omission