Careless

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Careless \Care"less\, a. [AS. cearle['a]s.]
     1. Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted.
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              Sleep she as sound as careless infancy. --Shak.


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     2. Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care;
        negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful;
        regardless.
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              My brother was too careless of his charge. --Shak.
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              He grew careless of himself.          --Steele.
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     3. Without thought or purpose; without due care; without
        attention to rule or system; unstudied; inconsiderate;
        spontaneous; rash; as, a careless throw; a careless
        expression.
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              He framed the careless rhyme.         --Beattie.
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     4. Not receiving care; uncared for. [R.]
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              Their many wounds and careless harms. --Spenser.
  
     Syn: Negligent; heedless; thoughtless; unthinking;
          inattentive; incautious; remiss; supine; forgetful;
          regardless; inconsiderate; listless.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  232 Moby Thesaurus words for "careless":
     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