Careless

Definition: Careless

Careless

Adjective

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".

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".

4. Showing an unthinking lack of consideration; "a careless remark".

Date "careless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Careless

Synonyms: careless(p) (adj), regardless (adj), thoughtless(p) (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: careful (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Feebleness	Careless, slovenly, loose, lax (negligent); slipshod, slipslop; inexact; puerile, childish; flatulent; rambling; (diffuse).
Inattention	Adjective: inattentive; unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking, unheeding, undiscerning; inadvertent; mindless, regardless, respectless, listless; (indifferent); blind, deaf; bird-witted; hand over head; cursory, percursory; giddy-brained, scatter-brained, hare-brained; unreflective, unreflecting, ecervele; offhand; dizzy, muzzy, brainsick; giddy, giddy as a goose; wild, harum-scarum, rantipole, highflying; heedless, careless; (neglectful).
Indifference	Adjective: indifferent, cold, frigid, lukewarm; cool, cool as a cucumber; unconcerned, insouciant, phlegmatic, pococurante, easygoing, devil-may-care, careless, listless, lackadaisical; half-hearted; unambitious, unaspiring, undesirous, unsolicitous, unattracted.
Insensibility	Indifferent, lukewarm; careless, mindless, regardless; inattentive; neglectful; disregarding.
Neglect	Adjective: neglecting; Verb: unmindful, negligent, neglectful; heedless, careless, thoughtless; perfunctory, remiss; feebleness.
Rashness	Adjective: rash, incautious, indiscreet; imprudent, improvident, temerarious; uncalculating; heedless; careless; (neglectful); without ballast, heels over head, head over heels; giddy; (inattentive); wanton, reckless, wild, madcap; desperate, devil-may-care.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	This is no fantasy - no careless product of wild imagination (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster) I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can be careless (The Godfather; writing credit: Francis Ford Coppola; Mario Puzo) Careless, my little dove cake, careless (International House; writing credit: Neil Brant; Walter DeLeon) Rikki Wu was sex. She was spoiled, self-centered, shallow, maybe cruel, certainly careless about other people (Walking Shadow; writing credit: Robert B. Parker;)
Lyrics	The careless whisper of a good friend (Careless Whisper; performing artist: Wham!) I've been careless with a delicate man. (Criminal; performing artist: Fiona Apple) With dark eyes and careless hair (Foolish Games; performing artist: Jewel) What we need is awareness, we can't get careless ("Fight the Power"; performing artist: Public Enemy) Careless needle (Prayer For The Dying; performing artist: Seal)
Clever	Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. (references; author: Mark Twain) A careless word may kindle strife. (references; author: unknown) Any car will last a lifetime...if you are careless enough. (references; author: unknown) How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Careless Caretaker (1962) The Careless Years (1957) You're Too Careless with Your Kisses (1932) Careless Lady (1932) The Careless Age (1929)
Song Titles	Careless Whisper (performing artist: Wham!)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Careless Creek (reference) Careless Whispers (reference) Careless Whispers (Indigo: Sensuous Love Stories) (reference) Careless Whispers/the Lake Waco Murders (reference) Compassion: Showing Care in a Careless World (Lifemaps) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	C and I - Careless & Imprudent (White Knuckle Extreme) (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Careless Use of Knives (reference) Careless Whisper [CD-SINGLE] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	Americans suffer when careless talk kills! / Harry Anderson. Credit: Library of Congress.		Bits of careless talk are pieced together by the enemy / Stevan Dohanos. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Award for careless talk / Stevan Dohanos. Credit: Library of Congress.		Warning! Consider the possible consequences if you are careless in your work / LN Britton ; Latham Litho. Printing Co. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Warning! Consider the possible consequences if you are careless in your work / LN Britton ; Latham Litho. Printing Co. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Play	Caption
	Cinema; nonchalant; airy; aloof; apathetic; blase; calm; careless; casual; cold; collected; composed; cool; detached; disimpassioned; disinterested; dispassionate; easy; effortless; frigid; happy; impassive; imperturbable; incurious; indifferent; insoucia.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Ben Johnson	Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
Horace	Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
James Russell Lowell	His more ambitious works may be defined as careless thinking carefully versified.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
Robert Browning	That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
Samuel Johnson	Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
Victor Hugo	Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	My greatest danger, perhaps, in housekeeping, may be quite the other way, in doing too much, and being too careless of expense
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	They are as careless and indolent as cats
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Her footsteps were loud and careless on the leaves as she went through the brush
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Italy	He also criticized the careless handling of official records such as judicial notices and health documents that contain personal information. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	RIOT, n. A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders. R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of requiescat in pace, attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than reductus in pulvis.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Bob Jones	I was surprised that a man who had arrived at such a position of leadership would, in a careless moment, I don't know how else to describe it, make a statement like that. I cannot believe the man is a racist.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Benjamin Harrison	1889-1893	We should not cease to be hospitable to immigration, but we should cease to be careless as to the character of it.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Careless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.24% of the time. "Careless" is used about 579 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)	97.24%	563	11,148
Noun (proper)	2.41%	14	93,893
Noun (common)	0.34%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	579	N/A

Expressions using "careless": be careless ♦ be careless about ♦ be careless of ♦ careless mistake ♦ careless woman. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Containing "careless": carefully-studied-careless-informality.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "careless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		agterlosig (negligent), agtelosig (negligent), agteloos (negligent). (various references)

Albanian		shkel-e-shko (slap bang, slapdash), pa merak, i shkujdesur (blind, carefree, 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 pavëmendshëm (absentminded, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, incurious, oblivious, regardless, unattending), i pakujdesshëm (imprudent, incautious, negligent, ownerless, reckless, remiss, unadvised, unguarded, unheeding). (various references)

Arabic		‏مهمل (abandoned, antiquated, derelict, deserted, discarded, disregarded, disregardful, disused, forgetful, forgotten, forsaken, heedless, ignored, in disuse, inadvertent, inattentive, incautious, left out, left over, neglected, neglectful, negligent, no longer of use, obsolete, omitted, out of use, outdated, reckless, refuse, regardless, remiss, slack, sloven, unpointed, waste), ‏متهور (audacious, blind, blindfold, blindfolded, brash, daredevil, daredevilry, desperate, devil may care, 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), ‏مستهتر (gay, heedless, inconsiderate, irresponsible, licentious, light minded, loiterer, pleasure-seeking, reckless, thoughtless, uninhibited, unrestrained, wanton), ‏لامبال (apathetic, cold-hearted, disinterested, indifferent, insouciant, nonchalant, perfunctory, unconcerned, uninterested), ‏غير متقن (botchery, clumsy), ‏غير مدروس (uncharted), ‏طائش (bad, flighty, foolhardy, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, hasty, heedless, impetuous, imprudent, inadvertent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, libertine, light, light minded, light-headed, lunatic, mad, madcap, muddle-headed, popinjay, random, rash, rattle-brained, reckless, scatter-brain, scatter-brained, scatty, stray, stunned, thoughtless, unadvised, unwise), ‏خلو من الهم (carefree). (various references)

Bulgarian		равнодушен (apathetic, apathetical, cold, cold blooded, indifferent, insensible, listless, lukewarm, nonchalant, pococurante, unconcerned, unmoved, vacant), нехаен (cavalier, derelict, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, improvident, inadvertent, mindless, negligent, perfunctory, remiss, thoughtless, unmindful, unthinking), невнимателен (distrait, forgetful, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, incurious, inobservant, inurbane, light hearted, neglectful, negligent, unattentive, unheeding, unkind), небрежен (casual, floppy, heedless, lax, loose, neglectful, neglige, negligent, perfunctory, ragged, raunchy, regardless, remiss, skimpy, slack, slapdash, slipshod, slipslop, sloppy, slovenly, thoughtless, unheeding, untidy), безгрижен (airy, carefree, devil may care, easygoing, happy go lucky, light, light hearted, lightsome, nonchalant, rollicking, slaphappy, unbending). (various references)

Chinese		粗心大意 (inadvertent, negligent). (various references)

Czech		neopatrný (heedless, imprudent, incautious, uncanny, unwary), nedbalý (casual, lax, neglectful, negligent, offhand, remiss, slack, sloppy, slovenly, unmindful), ledabylý (casual, cavalier, lax, remiss, slapdash, untidy), bezstarostný (carefree, cavalier, easy, easygoing, free from care, gay, happy go lucky, jaunty, laid back, light hearted, light-headed, reckless, slaphappy, unconcerned). (various references)

Dutch		onachtzaam (neglectful, negligent, remiss), nonchalant (neglectful, negligent, remiss), nalatig (neglectful, negligent, remiss). (various references)

Esperanto		senatenta (negligent), preterlasema (neglectful, negligent, remiss), neglektema (neglectful, negligent, remiss), neatenta (negligent), malzorga (neglectful, negligent, remiss). (various references)

Farsi		بی دقت (Negligent, Tentless). (various references)

Finnish		huolimaton (heedless, negligent, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly), huoleton (care-free, free from care, happy-go-lucky, light-hearted, non-caring, unconcerned). (various references)

French		négligent, imprudent, distrait. (various references)

Frisian		sleau (negligent). (various references)

German		achtlos (forgetful, heedless, negligent, thoughtless, unheeding), nachlässig (carelessly, forgetful, inattentive, lackadaisical, lax, neglectful, neglectfully, negligent, negligently, remiss, slack, slipshod, sloppy, thoughtless), sorglos (airily, carefree, carelessly, happy go lucky, improvident, improvidently, jaunty, lighthearted, unheeding, unheedingly, unmindful, unworried), leichtsinnig (carelessly, flippant, flippantly, foolish, frivolous, giddily, heedless, improvident, lightheaded, reckless, thoughtless), fahrlässig (negligent, negligently). (various references)

Greek		αμελήσ (lax, neglectful, negligent, remiss), απρόσεκτοσ (dabbler, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, incautious, mindless, negligent, perfunctory, reckless, regardless, slap dash, thoughtless, unguarded, unmindful, unwary), απρόσεκτος (cursory, heedless, inattentive), απερίσκεπτοσ (devil may care, inconsiderate, rash, thoughtless, unadvised, unconsidered, unreflecting). (various references)

Hebrew		מרושל (frowzy, negligent, perfunctory, slack, slapdash, slipshod, slob, sloppy, slovenly, unkempt), לא אכפתי (heedless, indifferent), פזיז (fickle, harebrained, hasty, headlong, impetuous, impulsive, nimble, precipitous, rash, slapdash, slaphappy), חסר ז�"ירות (improvident), רשל� י (neglectful, negligent, remiss, slovenly). (various references)

Hungarian		gondatlan (be negligent, devoid of cares, floppy, happy go lucky, inadvertent, mindless, neglectful, negligent, perfunctory, regardless, slack, slap-dash, sloppy, unguarded, unheeding). (various references)

Indonesian		ceroboh (bum, heady, reckless, wanton), sembrono (reckless), sembarangan (heady, just any, reckless), pengabaian (nonchalant), lalai (absent-minded, dilatory, indifferent, neglectful, remiss, untidy). (various references)

Italian		sbadato (heedless, listless, negligent, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, unreflecting), noncurante (airy, casual, indifferent, irrespective, negligent), negligente (inadvertent, inattentive, lax, negligent, remiss, slack, slapdash, slaphappy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		事も無�' , 呑気 (carefree, heedless, optimistic, reckless), それ迄 (all together, en masse, extortion, feel chilly, fidgety, in a body, in groups, in succession, like that, nervous, restless, rude, shiver, shudder, slovenly, sponging, such, that sort of, That's it, That's the end of the matter, thrill, uneasy, Until then), そうでない� �合は (about, go that far, hurriedly, if this is not the case, in a hurry, no more than, only, or so, thoughtless, to that extent), 滅多 (reckless, seldom, thoughtless), 杜�'� (faulty, sloppy), 杜漏 (negligent), 上滑り (inattentive, superficial), ボツリヌス菌 (bob, bobsled, bobsleigh, body, body blow, body building, body check, body conscious, body language, body line, body painting, body shampoo, body talk, body treatment, body-building, bodysuit, Bohemian, Bohemian glass, bomb, bonanzagram, bonus pay, Botswana, bottle, bottle keep, bottle-neck, bottom, bottom out, bottomless, bottom-line, bottom-up, botulinus bacillus, security check, sexually flattering clothing, special exercise for developing big muscles, voluntary chain, volunteer), 軽軽しい (frivolous, indiscreet, thoughtless), 粗忽 (at fault, rash, rude, thoughtless), 粗�"� (rough), 疎�"� (rough), 疎漏 (negligent), 軽々しい (frivolous, indiscreet, thoughtless), 軽率 (hasty, rash, thoughtless), 暢気 (carefree, heedless, optimistic, reckless). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぞ�"ざい (rude, slovenly), ずさ�" (birth, faulty, sloppy), ずろう (negligent), ボヤボヤ , そそっかしい (thoughtless), そほう (rough), そ�"つ (at fault, rash, rude, thoughtless), そろう (carelessness, negligent, to be all present, to be equal, to become complete, to gather), うわすべり (inattentive, superficial), の�"き (carefree, easy, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, heedless, optimistic, reckless), かるがるしい (frivolous, indiscreet, thoughtless), �"ともな�', めった (reckless, seldom, thoughtless), けいそつ (excellent soldier, hasty, rash, thoughtless). (various references)

Korean		부주의한 (heedless). (various references)

Malay		lalai (negligent). (various references)

Manx		neuharroogh (idling, inactive, slothful, unindustrious), neuchurrymagh (inattentive, insouciant, lax), neuchiarailagh (improvident), meerioosagh (forgetful, inattentive, negligent, regardless, remiss, thoughtless, thoughtless person). (various references)

Papiamen		deha (negligent). (various references)

Pig Latin		arelesscay.(various references)

Portuguese		descuidado (brainless, carefree, casual, harebrained, heedless, inadvertent, incautious, light-minded, mindless, neglectful, negligent, perfunctory, reckless, regardless, remiss, scatterbrained, slapdash, sloppy, thoughtless, unheeding, unmindful, unthinking, untidy, unwary). (various references)

Romanian		uşuratic (airily, airy, carelessly, fast, feather-brained, flyaway, frail, glib, light minded, light-mindedly, thoughtless, trifling, volatile), nepãsãtor (airily, apathetic, apathetical, apathetically, casual, devil may care, 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), neglijent (casual, casually, derelict, floppy, forgetful, inadvertent, loose, neglectful, negligent, ragged, remiss, slack in duty, slacky, sleazy, slipshod, slothful, unheeding, unkempt, unmindful, untidy, unwary), neatent (absent minded, abstracted, abstractedly, heedlessly, inadvertent, inadvertently, inattentive, inattentively, listless, neglectful, negligent, perfunctorily, regardless, scatterbrain, scatterbrains, thoughtless, unmindful), natural (certainly, easy, genuine, home-bred, innocent, kind, lifelike, matter of course, native, natural, naturally, physical, primitive, real, reasonably, simple, undisguised, unsophisticated, unvarnished), lipsit de griji, indolent (easy going, idle, indolent, lazy, nonchalant, remiss, slack, sleepy, slothful, supine, truant, unheeding), indiferent (all one, all the same, anywhere, apathetic, apathetical, chill, cool, dull, impassive, indifferent, indifferently, inhuman, insensible, insensitive, lackadaisical, languid, listless, nonchalant, numb, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pococurante, reckless, remiss, slack, slow, sluggish, stolid, unconcerned, unimportant, unmoved), firesc (innate, matter of course, native, natural, naturally, undisguised, unschooled). (various references)

Russian		небрежный (casual, devil-may-care, harum scarum, heedless, inadvertent, inexact, lax, loose, loose translation, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, perfunctory, ragged, remiss, scratchy, slipshod, sloppy, unheeding, unkempt). (various references)

Scottish		arraghaideach. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neoprezan (improvident, incautious, uncanny, unguarded, unwary), neobazriv (unmindful), nemaran (casual, debonair, delinquent, devil may care, easygoing, feckless, floppy, inattentive, incurious, indifferent, neglectful, negligent, reckless, slack, slipshod, sloppy), nehatan (incurious, negligent, remiss, slovenly, unheeding). (various references)

Spanish		sin cuidado (carefree, carelessly), negligente (devil may care, neglectful, negligent, regardless), descuidado (abandoned, disregarded, heedless, incautious, incautiousness, lackadaisical, neglected, neglectful, negligent, overgrown, remiss, slovenly, thoughtless, unattending, uncared for). (various references)

Swedish		vårdslös (inattentive, nonchalant, slipshod), slarvig (down at heel, fribble, frivolous, inattentive, off hand, offhand, offhanded, shoddy, slapdash, sloppy, slovenly, slutish, untidy), ovarsam (inadvertent, incautious), oförsiktig (improvident, imprudent, incautious, indiscreet, unwary), oaktsam (negligent). (various references)

Turkish		tasasız (carefree, easygoing, happy go lucky, insouciant, light, light hearted, thoughtless, without a care in the world), pervasız (bluff, daft, daring, devil may care, fearless, fond, gutsy, harum scarum, reckless), lakayt (indifferent, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, reckless, slapdash), kaygısız (buoyant, carefree, freewheeling, gaily, insouciant, jaunty, light hearted, unconcerned), kayıtsız (apathetic, apathetical, carefree, devil may care, feckless, footloose, forgetful, freewheeling, impassive, incurious, indifferent, listless, nonchalant, reckless, regardless, rough and ready, unconditional, uninscribed, unmindful, unrecorded, unregistered), ilgisiz (aloof, apathetic, apathetical, complacent, disinterested, does not apply, impertinent, incurious, indifferent, insensible, insouciant, irrelevant, listless, lukewarm, nonchalant, oblivious, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, standoffish, superior, unallied, unconcerned, unconnected, uninterested, unobliging, unrelated), ihmalkâr (derelict, forgetful, inattentive, neglectful, negligent, oblivious), ihmalci (derelict, forgetful, inattentive, neglectful, negligent, oblivious, remiss, slack, unheedful), gafil (incautious, remiss, unguarded, unprovided, unwary), dikkatsiz (freewheeling, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, incurious, lax, listless, mindless, regardless, remiss, slipshod, unaware, unheedful, unheeding, unobservant, unregardful, unseeing, unwary), düşünmeden söylenmiş ya da yapılmış, düşüncesiz (blind, blindfold, brusque, flighty, freewheeling, gauche, half-baked, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heady, ill-advised, ill-judged, imprudent, impulsive, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, mindless, out of turn, rash, reckless, slapdash, tactless, thoughtless, unadvised, unmindful, unreflecting, unthinking, wanton, without tact, witless), aldırışsız (devil may care, gaily, heedless, indifferent, insensate, reckless, regardless, unconcerned, unmindful, unobliging). (various references)

Turkmen		howul-hara (hasty, hurried), hapysa (slovenly), biparh (indifferent), biagyry (carefree). (various references)

Ukrainian		неуважний (absent, absentminded, abstracted, distrait, erratic, faraway, forgetful, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, incurious, inobservant, mused, neglectful, negligent, oblivious, oscitant, outward, unmindful, vague), неточний (fast, hit-and-miss, imprecise, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, out, unfaithful), неакуратний (disheveled, dishevelled, inexact, slipshod), недбалий (casual, dishonest, heedless, inattentive, lax, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, oscitant, overly, slovenly, unguarded), легковажний (airy, daft, featherbrained, flighty, frivolous, giddy, gossipy, harum scarum, hoity toity, light-headed, lightsome, puerile, volatile), безтурботний (carefree, cavalier, devil may care, easygoing, effortless, gay, happy go lucky, heedless, inadvertent, jaunty, light hearted, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, placid, rollicking, serene, unconcerned, watchless), природний (artless, connatural, elemental, inbred, indigenous, matter of course, native, natural, physic, radical, unartful, unlabored, unlaboured, untaught, untutored). (various references)

Vietnamese		cẩu thả; không chính xác vô tư, sơ ý, không lo nghĩ (insouciant), không lưu ý (heedless), không chú ý (heedless, inattentive, mind, uninterested, unmindful), không cẩn thận (nonchalant, slipshod), không để ý (heedless, indifferent, unmindful). (various references)

Welsh		ysgafala (free, secure), diofal. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	incuriosus, neglegens, neglegentia, soluta, soluti, solutis, solutum, solutus. (various references)
Late Latin	300-700	perfunctorius. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	recceleas. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Isaiah Chapter 32, Verse 9
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	GunaikeV plousiai anasthte kai akousate thV fwnhV mou qugatereV en elpidi akousate touV logouV mou
Latin	405	Vulgate	Mulieres opulentae surgite et audite vocem meam filiae confidentes percipite auribus eloquium meum
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Yee plenteuous wymmen, riseth, and hereth my voys; yee trostende doytris, parceyueth with eres my speche.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear to my speech.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Give ear to my voice, you women who are living in comfort; give attention to my words, you daughters who have no fear of danger.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Isaiah Chapter 32, Verse 9
Cebuano	¶ Panindog, kamong mga babaye nga anaa sa kasayon, ug patalinghugi ang akong tingog; kamong mga anak nga babaye nga danghag, patalinghugi ang akong pakigpulong.
Croatian	Ustajte, žene nehajne, slušajte moj glas; kæeri lakoumne, èujte mi besjedu.
Danish	Op, hør min Røst, I sorgløse Kvinder, I trygge Døtre, lyt til min Tale!
Dutch	Staat op, gij geruste vrouwen, hoort mijn stem; gij dochters, die zo zeker zijt, neemt mijn redenen ter ore.
Finnish	Nouskaa, te suruttomat naiset, kuulkaa minun ääntäni; te huolettomat tyttäret, tarkatkaa minun sanojani.
French	Femmes insouciantes, Levez-vous, écoutez ma voix! Filles indolentes, Prêtez l`oreille � ma parole!
German	Stehet auf, ihr stolzen Frauen, höret meine Stimme! ihr Töchter, die ihr so sicher seid, nehmt zu Ohren meine Rede!
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Dengarlah, hai wanita-wanita yang hidup enak, bebas dari kesusahan!
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Bangunlah kamu, hai segala orang perempuan yang alpa! dengarlah olehmu akan kataku; hai anak-anak perempuan yang bersentosa, berilah telinga akan perkataanku!
Italian	Donne spensierate, suvvia ascoltate la mia voce; figlie baldanzose, porgete l'orecchio alle mie parole.
Korean	너 희 안 일 한 부 녀 �"� 아 일 어 나 내 목 소 리 를 �"� 을 지 어 다 너 희 염 � � 없 �" �"� �"� 아 내 말 에 귀 를 기 울 일 지 라
Maori	¶ Whakatika e nga wahine e noho pai ana, whakarongo ki toku reo: e nga tamahine whakaarokore, kia whai taringa ki aku kupu.
Norwegian	I sorgløse kvinner, stå op, hør min røst! I trygge døtre, vend eders ører til min tale!
Rumanian	,,Femei fqrq grijq, sculayi-vq wi ascultayi glasul meu! Fiice nepqsqtoare, luayi aminte la cuvkntul meu!
Russian	цЕОЭЙОЩ �'ЕУ� ЕЮОЩЕ! ЧУФБОШФЕ, � ПУМХЫБКФЕ ЗПМПУБ НПЕЗП; �"ПЮЕТЙ �'ЕЪЪБ�'ПФОЩЕ! � ТЙЛМПОЙФЕ УМХИ Л НПЙН УМПЧБН.
Spanish	Oh mujeres indolentes, levantaos; oíd mi voz. Oh hijas confiadas, escuchad mi palabra:
Swedish	I kvinnor, som ären så säkra, stån upp och hören min röst; I sorglösa jungfrur, lyssnen till mitt tal.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "careless": carelessly, carelessness, carelessnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Careless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: barrellers, Cabrales, Carelle, careness, carpetless, carples, cartless, caseless, cereblis, Corelscsi. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "careless" (pronounced ke"rlus)
5	-e" r l u s	airless, hairless.
4	-r l u s	earless, fearless, peerless, scoreless, wireless.
3	-l u s	accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: rescales.
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-l-r-s-s"
	-1 letter: carless, cereals, classer, creases, earless, leasers, relaces, resales, rescale, reseals, scalers, sclerae, scleras, sealers.
	-2 letters: caress, carles, carses, ceases, cereal, clears, crases, crease, creels, easels, erases, escars, lacers, larees, lasers, leaser, leases, lesser, rassle, reales, recess, relace, resale, reseal, sarees, scaler, scales, scares, sclera, screes, sealer, seracs.
	-3 letters: acres, alecs, arles, arses, cares.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-l-r-s-s"
	+1 letter: casserole, cleansers, clearness, escaroles, graceless, traceless.
	+2 letters: carelessly, cartelises, casseroles, cervelases, creaseless, escaladers, leadscrews, lowercases, replicases, sacrileges, salesclerk, searchless, secularise, superscale.
	+3 letters: caramelises, carefulness, caressively, centralises, clearnesses, curableness, descrambles, escadrilles, forecastles, gracelessly, gracileness, linecasters, luciferases, necessarily, processable, recessional, reescalates, salesclerks, screenlands, screenplays, secularised, secularises, secularizes, superscales, telecasters.
	+4 letters: carelessness, clearstories, desacralizes, descramblers, gracefulness, letterspaces, narcolepsies, precessional, recessionals, reclassified, reclassifies, relandscapes, resemblances, resocializes, respectables, sclerodermas, secularities, secularizers, spacewalkers, superclasses, superspecial, underclasses, verticalness.
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Careless

Definition: Careless

Careless

Adjective

Synonyms: Careless

Synonyms within Context: Careless

Feebleness

Inattention

Indifference

Insensibility

Neglect

Rashness

Crosswords: Careless

Modern Usage: Careless

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Clever

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Commercial Usage: Careless

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Image Slideshow: Careless

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Photo Album: Careless

Sounds Captioned with "Careless".

Familiar Quotations: Careless

Ben Johnson

Horace

James Russell Lowell

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Robert Browning

Samuel Johnson

Victor Hugo

Use in Literature: Careless

Emma

Austen, Jane

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Non-Fiction Usage: Careless

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Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Careless

Bob Jones

Speeches: Careless

Benjamin Harrison

Usage Frequency: Careless

Expressions: Careless

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Careless

Modern Translation: Careless

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