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Definition: DEVIL MAY CARE |
DEVIL MAY CARE1. Reckless, defiant of authority; -- used adjectively. --Longfellow. |
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| Expression | Frequency per Day |
devil may care | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DEVIL MAY CARE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i shkujdesur (blind, carefree, careless, casual, cavalier, 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 paarsyeshëm (arbitrary, daft, desperate, gratuitous, headstrong, irrational, preposterous, unconscionable, unreasonable, wanton), i krisur (balmy, bonkers, cracked, crackers, cuckoo, Daffy, dare devil, daring, desperate, flaky, hard on, loon, loony, madcap, nut, nuts, pixilated, potty, screwball, wacky). (various references) | |
Arabic | متهور (audacious, blind, blindfold, blindfolded, brash, careless, daredevil, daredevilry, desperate, excessive, extravagant, foolhardy, harum scarum, hasty, headlong, heady, heedless, hot-headed, immaterial, impetuous, impish, imprudent, impulsive, inconsiderate, light-headed, madcap, precipitate, precipitous, rash, reckless, slapdash, temerarious, too hasty, unrestrained, unwary). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | безразсъден (daredevil, desperate, injudicious, irrational, rash, reasonless, reckless, temerarious, unreasonable, unreasoning), безгрижен (airy, carefree, careless, easygoing, happy go lucky, light, light hearted, lightsome, nonchalant, rollicking, slaphappy, unbending). (various references) | |
French | insouciant (devilry). (various references) | |
German | burschikosen. (various references) | |
Greek | απερίσκεπτοσ (careless, inconsiderate, rash, thoughtless, unadvised, unconsidered, unreflecting). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nemtörõdöm (careless, happy go lucky, negligent, nonchalant, remiss), bánja az ördög. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | evilday aymay arecay.(various references) | |
Romanian | nepãsãtor (airily, apathetic, apathetical, apathetically, careless, casual, easy going, happy go lucky, heedless, impassible, impassive, inconsiderate, incurious, indifferent, indolent, insensible, insouciant, jaunty, lackadaisical, listless, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, reckless, regardless, remiss, slack, slow, stolid, thoughtless, unmoved), nebunatic (frisky, frolicsome, hoity toity, larky, wanton). (various references) | |
Russian | бесшабашный, беззаботный (carefree, nonchalant). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nemaran (careless, casual, debonair, delinquent, easygoing, feckless, floppy, inattentive, incurious, indifferent, neglectful, negligent, reckless, slack, slipshod, sloppy), lakomislen (featherbrain, featherbrained, flippant, frivolous, improvident, inconsiderate, light minded, light-headed, thoughtless). (various references) | |
Spanish | despreocupado (breezy, carefree, disregarded, happy go lucky, nonchalant, slapdash, slovenly, unconcerned), temerario (reckless), negligente (careless), arriesgado (hazardous, risky, adventurous, chancy). (various references) | |
Swedish | sorglös (carefree), oförvägen (daring). (various references) | |
Turkish | umursamaz (conscience-proof, disregardful, harum scarum, insensible, lax, light, neglectful, negligent, reckless, slapdash, thickskinned, unconcerned, unheedful), pervasız (bluff, careless, daft, daring, fearless, fond, gutsy, harum scarum, reckless), kayıtsız (apathetic, apathetical, carefree, careless, feckless, footloose, forgetful, freewheeling, impassive, incurious, indifferent, listless, nonchalant, reckless, regardless, rough and ready, unconditional, uninscribed, unmindful, unrecorded, unregistered), aldırışsız (careless, gaily, heedless, indifferent, insensate, reckless, regardless, unconcerned, unmindful, unobliging). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | відчайдушний (adventurous, foolhardy, harum scarum, hot-brained, last ditch, slashing, sportsmanlike), безтурботний (carefree, careless, cavalier, easygoing, effortless, gay, happy go lucky, heedless, inadvertent, jaunty, light hearted, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, placid, rollicking, serene, unconcerned, watchless). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-i-l-m-r-v-y" | |
-2 letters: acrylamide, cavaliered, decemviral. | |
-3 letters: declaimer, mediaeval, reavailed, reclaimed. | |
-4 letters: camailed, cavalier, clavered, creamily, decemvir, delivery, dreamily, maravedi, marveled, medicare, medieval, remailed, remedial, variedly. | |
-5 letters: academe, academy, acridly, admiral, alarmed, alcaide, alcayde, already, amerced, availed, avarice, cadaver, caldera, calvary, camelia, camerae, cameral, caramel, caravel, cardiae, cavalry, caviare, caviled, caviler, ceramal, claimed, claimer, clavier, clayier, cleared. | |
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