Word Meanings - CARELESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted. Spenser. Sleep she as sound as careless infancy. Shak. 2. Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care; negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful; regardless. My

Additional info about word: CARELESS

1. Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted. Spenser. Sleep she as sound as careless infancy. Shak. 2. Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care; negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful; regardless. My brother was too careless of his charge. Shak. He grew careless of himself. Steele. 3. Without thought or purpose; without due care; without attention to rule or system; unstudied; inconsiderate; spontaneouse; rash; as, a careless throw; a careless expression. He framed the careless rhyme. Beatie. 4. Not receiving care; uncared for. Their many wounds and careless hatms. Spemser. Syn. -- Negligent; heedless; thoughtless; unthinking; inattentive; incautious; remiss; forgetful; regardless; inconsiderate; listless.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CARELESS)

• Cursory
• Rapid
• hasty
• desultory
• careless
• superficial
• slight
• summary
• Free
• Detached
• playing
• operating
• open
• unoccupied
• unobstructed
• unimpeded
• permitted
• unhindered
• exempt
• gratuitous
• unconditional
• at liberty
• clear
• liberal
• untrammelled
• uncounted
• loose
• easy
• munificent
• unreserved
• frank
• bountiful
• generous
• bounteous
• Inadvertent
• Inobservant
• heedless
• Jocund
• Merry
• joyous
• jovial
• gay
• gleeful
• blithesome
• mirthful
• hilarious
• sprightly
• sportive
• joyful
• lively
• vivacious
• Listless
• Indifferent
• uninterested
• vacant
• languid
• indolent
• supine
• lackadaisical
• torpid

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CARELESS)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain
• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to CARELESS)

• FRANKALMOIGNE
  A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called also tenure by free alms. Burrill.
• OPERATIC; OPERATICAL
  Of or pertaining to the opera or to operas; characteristic of, or resembling, the opera.
• LIVELY
  1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
• JOVIALITY
  The quality or state of being jovial. Sir T. Herbert.
• PLAY
  quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• UNINTERESTED
  1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• PLAYTE
  See PLEYT
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• RAPID
  1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth;
• JOVIALTY
  Joviality. Barrow.
• LIBERALIZE
  To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• BOUNTIFUL
  1. Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors. God, the bountiful Author of our being. Locke. 2. Plentiful; abundant; as, a bountiful supply of food. Syn. -- Liberal; munificent; generous; bounteous. -- Boun"ti*ful*ly, adv.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• CONGENEROUS
  Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases. Sir T. Browne. -- Con*gen"er*ous*ness, n. Hallywell.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.