Dictionary Definition
careless adj
1 marked by lack of attention or consideration or
forethought or thoroughness; not careful; "careless about her
clothes"; "forgotten by some careless person"; "a careless
housekeeper"; "careless proofreading"; "it was a careless mistake";
"hurt by a careless remark" [ant: careful]
2 effortless and unstudied; "an impression of
careless elegance"; "danced with careless grace"
3 (usually followed by `of') without due thought
or consideration; "careless of the consequences"; "the proverbial
grasshopper--thoughtless of tomorrow"; "crushing the blooms with
regardless tread" [syn: careless(p),
thoughtless(p),
regardless]
4 showing an unthinking lack of consideration; "a
careless remark"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛə(r)ləs
Adjective
- Not giving sufficient attention or thought, especially
concerning the avoidance of harm or mistakes.
- Jessica dressed so carelessly that she put her shorts on backwards.
- Not concerned or worried about.
- Showing no interest or effort.
Translations
not giving sufficient attention or thought
- German: unvorsichtig, unbedacht, unachtsam, leichtsinnig
not concerned or worried about
- German: sorglos
showing no interest or effort
- German: nachlässig
- Swahili: pumbaa
Extensive Definition
Careless may refer to:
- careless, someone who does not take proper care
- James Maurice Stockford Careless, a Canadian historian from the University of Toronto
- "Carelss", a song by Paul Kelly & The Messengers from their 1989 album So Much Water So Close to Home
- "Careless", a song by Cinerama from their 2002 album Torino
- "Careless", a film by Matías Basso
- "Careless", an unreleased song by Jonathan Davis.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
absent-minded, accident-prone, airy, all thumbs, aloof, apathetic, arbitrary, artless, ataractic, awkward, barbarous, beat-up, bedraggled, behindhand, blase, blowzy, blunderheaded, blundering, boorish, bored, breakneck, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, capricious, carefree, casual, chintzy, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cumbersome, cursory, degage, delinquent, derelict, desperate, detached, devil-may-care,
dilapidated,
disheveled, disinterested, dispassionate, disregardant, disregardful, distant, distracted, distrait, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, easy, easygoing, erroneous, faulty, feckless, fingers all thumbs,
flippant, forgetful, free and easy,
frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fumbling, furious, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, grubby, ham-fisted, ham-handed,
harum-scarum, hasty,
headlong, heavy-handed,
heedless, hotheaded, hulking, hulky, hurried, impassive, impetuous, impotent, imprecise, improper, imprudent, in rags, inaccurate, inadequate, inadvertent, inattentive, incapable, incautious, inconsiderate, incorrect, incurious, indifferent, inelegant, inexact, inexcitable, infelicitous, informal, ingenuous, inobservant, insouciant, irresponsible, lackadaisical, lax, lazy, left-hand, left-handed,
lenient, listless, loose, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpen, lumpish, mad, maladroit, messy, mindless, mussy, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, oafish, oblivious, offhand, overeager, overenthusiastic,
overindulgent,
overpermissive,
overzealous,
perfunctory,
permissive, phlegmatic, pococurante, poky, ponderous, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, ragged, raggedy, rash, raunchy, reasonless, reckless, regardless, relaxed, remiss, respectless, ruinous, scraggly, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slap-bang, slapdash, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, soft, solecistic, sordid, squalid, stiff, stolid, tacky, tactless, tattered, thoughtless, turned-off,
unanxious, uncalculating, uncaring, unconcerned, uncouth, undiplomatic, undiscriminating,
unfastidious,
unfit, ungainly, ungraceful, ungrammatic, unguarded, unhandy, unheedful, unheeding, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unkempt, unmarking, unmindful, unneat, unnoticing, unnoting, unobservant, unobserving, unprepared, unqualified, unready, unreasoning, unreflecting, unreflective, unremarking, unrestrained, unsightly, unsolicitous, unstudied, untactful, unthinking, unthorough, unthoughtful, untidy, untroubled, unwary, unwieldy, unworried, wanton, weak, wild, withdrawn, wrecking, wrong