care
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r-der. Proto-Germanic *karō Proto-West Germanic *karu Old English caru Middle English care English care From Middle English care, from Old English caru, ċearu (“care, concern, anxiety, sorrow, grief, trouble”), from Proto-West Germanic *karu, from Proto-Germanic *karō (“care, sorrow, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r- (“shout, call”). Cognate with Old Saxon cara, kara (“concern, action”), Middle High German kar (“sorrow, lamentation”), Icelandic kör (“sickbed”), Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌰 (kara, “concern, care”). Related also to Dutch karig (“scanty”), German karg (“sparse, meagre, barren”), Latin garriō, Ancient Greek γῆρυς (gêrus). See also chary.
Definitions
Close attention
Close attention; concern; responsibility.
- Care should be taken when holding babies.
- I thank thee for thy care and honest pains.
- ‘Have a care, Buquet—ghosts like not to be seen or talked about!’
Worry.
- I don’t have a care in the world.
- Yes, heaven, I’m in heaven / And the cares that hung around me through the week / Seem to vanish like a gambler’s lucky streak
Maintenance, upkeep.
- dental care
- Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
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The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).
- The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
The state of being cared for by others.
- in care
The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
- Right sorrowfully mourning her bereaved cares.
Grief, sorrow.
- More health and happiness betide my liege / Than can my care-tuned tongue deliver him!
- Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.
To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in)
To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about).
- She doesn’t care what you think.
- I don’t care, I’m still going.
- […] What cares these roarers [i.e. thunder] for the name of king?[…]
To want, to desire
To want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards or interested in.
- Would you care for another slice of cake?
- Would you care to dance?
- I don’t care to hear your opinion.
To be affected by, to treat as relevant for a subsequent course of action.
- An event aggregator facilitates a fire-and-forget model of communication. The object triggering the event doesn’t care if there are any subscribers. It just fires the event and moves on.
(with for) To look after or look out for.
- Young children can learn to care for a pet.
- He cared for his mother while she was sick.
To mind
To mind; to object.
A surname.
The neighborhood
- synonymbecare
- synonymbother
- synonymcare
- synonymconcern oneself
- synonymheed
- synonymmind
- synonymreck
- synonymtrouble oneself
- synonymworry
- antonymlet slide
- antonymneglect
- neighborcarcake
- neighborchary
- neighborcouldn't care less
- neighborI don't care
- neighborwho cares
- neighborzero fucks given
- neighborcare a button
- neighborcare a jackstraw
- neighborcare a fig
- neighborcare a hang
- neighborcare a hoot
- neighborcare a monkey's
Derived
aftercare, aged care, allocare, ambulatory care, babycare, baby-care, backcare, birdcare, bodycare, care a hoot, care and attention, care and feeding, carebear, care bear, care-experienced, care factor, care factor zero, carefree, carefront, carefrontation, careful, caregiver, care-giver, caregiving, care home, carehouse, care in the community, care killed a cat, care killed the cat, careleaver, careless, careline, caremonger, caremongering, care of, care package, careseeker, careseeking, caresome, Care Sunday · +119 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at care. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at care. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at care
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA