careless
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r-der. Proto-Germanic *karō Proto-West Germanic *karu Old English caru Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Old English carlēas Middle English careles English careless From Middle English careles, from Old English carlēas (“careless, reckless, void of care, free from care, free”), equivalent to care + -less. Cognate with Icelandic kærulaus (“careless, negligent”).
- inherited from careles
Definitions
Not concerned or worried (about).
Not giving sufficient attention or thought, especially concerning the avoidance of harm…
Not giving sufficient attention or thought, especially concerning the avoidance of harm or mistakes.
- Jessica was so careless that she put her shorts on backwards.
- I don't find the pose of careless youth charming and engaging any more than you find the pose of careworn age fascinating and eccentric, I should imagine.
Free from care
Free from care; unworried, without anxiety.
- Jessica was careless about putting her shorts on properly.
- Good-humored, easy, and careless, he presided over his whale-boat as if the most deadly encounter were but a dinner, and his crew all invited guests.
The neighborhood
- synonymcareless
- synonymcursory
- synonymderelict
- synonymheedless
- synonymirregardless
- synonymirrespective
- synonymlash
- synonymlax
- synonymneglectful
- synonymnegligent
- synonymreckless
- synonymregardless
- antonymmeticulous
- neighborguilty
- neighbordeficient
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at careless. 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 careless. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at careless
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