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Definitions: Carefree |
CarefreeAdjective1. Free of trouble and worry and care; "the carefree joys of childhood"; "carefree millionaires, untroubled financially". 2. Cheerfully irresponsible; "carefree with his money"; "freewheeling urban youths"; "had a harum-scarum youth". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "carefree" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Synonyms: CarefreeSynonyms: devil-may-care (adj), freewheeling (adj), happy-go-lucky (adj), harum-scarum (adj), slaphappy (adj), unworried (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Carefree |
| English words defined with "carefree": blithe, blithesome, boisterously ♦ devil-may-care, dolce far niente ♦ escapade ♦ fancy-free ♦ halcyon ♦ lark, lighthearted, lightsome ♦ raffish, rakish, rollickingly ♦ unworried ♦ wanton. (references) |
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Screenplays | Boy, I envy Sammy and his carefree lifestyle. (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) | |
Lyrics | Fortune And Fame, A Life That's So Carefree ("Dirty Diana"; performing artist: Michael Jackson) I'll be loose I'll be carefree ("Feel So High"; performing artist: Des'ree) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Carefree (1938) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Rabbit on golf practice green, The Boulders, Carefree, Arizona.Credit: CDC. |  | Goat eating from family tree, carefree couple with waiter, amusement ride under arbor, workers at loom.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Carefree" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.70% of the time. "Carefree" is used about 186 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 95.7% | 178 | 23,220 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.3% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 186 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Carefree, AZ (town, FIPS 10180) 2. Carefree, IN (town, FIPS 10242) |
Expression using "carefree": carefree az. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "carefree": anything-but-carefree. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "carefree"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i shkujdesur (blind, careless, casual, cavalier, devil may care, downbeat, easy, easygoing, fast, forgetful, happy go lucky, heedless, improvident, inadvertent, incautious, inobservant, lax, light hearted, lightsome, neglectful, negligent, remiss, slack, slaphappy, slipshod, thoughtless, traipse, trapes, unclean, unconcerned, unkempt, unladylike, unmindful, untidy), i lumtur (blessed, blissful, felicitous, fortunate, happy, joyful, joyous, lucky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مبتهج (alacrity, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, debonair, delighted, delightful, elate, elated, exultant, gay, glad, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, mellow, merry, mirthful, overjoyed, palmy, rejoicing, upbeat), سعيد (auspicious, blessed, blissful, blithe, felicitous, fortuitous, fortunate, gay, glad, happy, happy go lucky, high, in high spirits, joyful, joyous, lucky, merry, pi, pollyanna, providential, thankful, unstressed, upbeat), خلو من الهم (careless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | безгрижен (airy, careless, devil may care, easygoing, happy go lucky, light, light hearted, lightsome, nonchalant, rollicking, slaphappy, unbending), безотговорен (erratic, happy go lucky, harum scarum, irresponsible, shiftless, unconscionable, wildcat, worthless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 忧 虑. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bezstarostný (careless, cavalier, easy, easygoing, free from care, gay, happy go lucky, jaunty, laid back, light hearted, light-headed, reckless, slaphappy, unconcerned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | سبکبار, بی خیال . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | railakas (brisk, jaunty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | content, sans souci, insoucieux, insouciant (careless, casual, devil may care). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sorgenfrei (free of care), sorgenlos, sorglos (airily, careless, carelessly, happy go lucky, improvident, improvidently, jaunty, lighthearted, unheeding, unheedingly, unmindful, unworried). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ξένοιαστοσ (easy going, insouciant, jaunty, unwary), ανέμελοσ (casual, debonair, slap happy), αμέριμνοσ (light hearted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שא ן (at ease, calm, complacent, secure, serene, tranquil), חסר "א'" (happy go lucky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gondtalan (careless, easy, happy-go-lucky, light hearted, unclouded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | riang (boon, debonair, glee, hilarious, jocund). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | spensierato (airy, happy go lucky, light hearted, thoughtless, unworried), senza preoccupazioni, libero da preoccupazioni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 身軽 (agile, casual, light, nimble), 暖気 (easy, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, warm weather, warmth), 暢気 (careless, heedless, optimistic, reckless), 温温 (comfortably, cosily, easy, snugly), 温々 (comfortably, cosily, easy, snugly), 伸び伸び (feeling at ease), 伸びやか (comfortable), のろけ話 (at leisure, leisure, slowly, sluggishly, speaking fondly of, tranquility), 安楽 (comfort, cosy, ease), 屈託の無い (free from worry), 屈託のない (free from worry), サンケア指数 (belt, Saint-Simonism, San Diego, sand, sandal, sandwich, sandwich man, Sankei Sports, Sanskrit, sans-souci, Santa Clara, Santa Claus, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santa Maria, soundtrack, sun deck, sun protection index, sundae, sunset, sunshade, sunshine, suntan, suntan oil, Suntory, Suntory Hall, syndicalism, syndicalist, thunder, thunderbird), 呑気 (careless, heedless, optimistic, reckless), 心安い (familiar, friendly, intimate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | くったくのない (free from worry), のびのび (feeling at ease, procrastinate, repeatedly put off, stretching), のびやか (comfortable), の"びり (at leisure), の"き (careless, easy, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, heedless, optimistic, reckless), ぬくぬく (comfortably, cosily, easy, snugly), ""ろやすい (familiar, friendly, intimate), あ"らく (comfort, cosy, ease), サンスーシ (sans-souci), みがる (agile, casual, light, nimble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 태평한. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuvoirit (imperturbed, unbothered, unconcerned, undisturbed), gyn currym (unencumbered), aeragh (aerated, airy, atmospheric, coltish, etherial, jaunty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arefreecay feliz (blissful, felicitous, fortunate, fortunately, gay, glad to meet you, gladsome, happy, joyous, lucky, merry, Palmyra, prostate, providential, successful), despreocupado (happy go lucky, inspect, light-heartedness, reckless, unconcerned), descuidado (brainless, careless, casual, harelip, heedless, inadvertent, incautious, light minded, mindless, neglectful, negligent, perfunctory, reckless, regardless, remiss, scatterbrained, slapdash, sloppy, thoughtless, unheeding, unmindful, unthinking, untidy, unwary), desatento (careless, deaf, distraught, harebrained, inattentive, inobservant, light minded, listless, mindless, regardless, scatterbrained, unobservant). (various references) iresponsabil (irresponsible, non compos mentis), fãrã griji (easy, free from care, freeminded, light-heartedly, neglectful, thoughtless). (various references) беззаботный (careless, devil may care, happy go lucky, light hearted, lighthearted, light-hearted, nonchalant, reckless, slap-happy, unconcern, unconcerned). (various references) bezbrižan (blithe, fancy-free, happy go lucky, jaunty). (various references) sin cuidado (careless, carelessly), despreocupado (breezy, devil may care, disregarded, happy go lucky, nonchalant, slapdash, slovenly, unconcerned). (various references) sorglös (breezy, careless, debonair, devil may care, easy, easy going, easy-going, heedless, insouciant, light hearted). (various references) tasasız (careless, easygoing, happy go lucky, insouciant, light, light hearted, thoughtless, without a care in the world), kaygısız (buoyant, careless, freewheeling, gaily, insouciant, jaunty, light hearted, unconcerned), kayıtsız (apathetic, apathetical, careless, devil may care, feckless, footloose, forgetful, freewheeling, impassive, incurious, indifferent, listless, nonchalant, reckless, regardless, rough and ready, unconditional, uninscribed, unmindful, unrecorded, unregistered), kalender (philosophic, philosophical, unconventional), gamsız (gaily, happy go lucky, harum scarum, light hearted, lymphatic), endişesiz (calm, insouciant, light hearted, unconcerned), dertsiz (easy, untroubled). (various references) biagyry (careless). (various references) нічим не обтяжений, безтурботний (careless, cavalier, devil may care, easygoing, effortless, gay, happy go lucky, heedless, inadvertent, jaunty, light hearted, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, placid, rollicking, serene, unconcerned, watchless). (various references) vô tư lự (unthoughtful), thảnh thơi (unpreoccupied). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Carefree" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caerfai, carfree, cerifera. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-f-r-r" | |
-2 letters: career, farcer, fearer, reefer, reface. | |
-3 letters: carer, facer, farce, farer, freer, frere, racer, refer. | |
-4 letters: acre, cafe, care, carr, cere, face, fare, fear, fere, frae, free, race, rare, rear, reef. | |
-5 letters: ace, arc, are, arf, car, cee, ear, era, ere, err, far, fee, fer, rec, ree, ref. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-f-r-r" | |
+2 letters: freelancer. | |
+3 letters: forereached, forereaches, freelancers. | |
+4 letters: transference. | |
+5 letters: refractometer, reinforceable, transferences. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 65 66 72 65 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. . ..-. .-. . . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01100101 01100110 01110010 01100101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r e f r e e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0065 0066 0072 0065 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767847172847171 |
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