careless

careless
    adj 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" [ant:
           {careful}]
    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"; "crushing the
       blooms with regardless tread" [syn: {careless(p)},
       {regardless}]
    

Careless \Care"less\, a. [AS. cearle['a]s.]
   1. Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted.
      --Spenser.
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            Sleep she as sound as careless infancy. --Shak.
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   2. Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care;
      negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful;
      regardless.
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            My brother was too careless of his charge. --Shak.
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            He grew careless of himself.          --Steele.
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   3. Without thought or purpose; without due care; without
      attention to rule or system; unstudied; inconsiderate;
      spontaneous; rash; as, a careless throw; a careless
      expression.
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            He framed the careless rhyme.         --Beattie.
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   4. Not receiving care; uncared for. [R.]
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            Their many wounds and careless harms. --Spenser.

   Syn: Negligent; heedless; thoughtless; unthinking;
        inattentive; incautious; remiss; supine; forgetful;
        regardless; inconsiderate; listless.
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232 Moby Thesaurus words for "careless":
      absent-minded, accident-prone, airy, all thumbs, aloof, apathetic,
      arbitrary, artless, ataractic, awkward, barbarous, beat-up,
      bedraggled, behindhand, blase, blowzy, blunderheaded, blundering,
      boorish, bored, breakneck, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered,
      capricious, carefree, casual, chintzy, clownish, clumsy,
      clumsy-fisted, cumbersome, cursory, degage, delinquent, derelict,
      desperate, detached, devil-may-care, dilapidated, disheveled,
      disinterested, dispassionate, disregardant, disregardful, distant,
      distracted, distrait, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, easy,
      easygoing, erroneous, faulty, feckless, fingers all thumbs,
      flippant, forgetful, free and easy, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy,
      fumbling, furious, gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, grubby,
      ham-fisted, ham-handed, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong,
      heavy-handed, heedless, hotheaded, hulking, hulky, hurried,
      impassive, impetuous, impotent, imprecise, improper, imprudent,
      in rags, inaccurate, inadequate, inadvertent, inattentive,
      incapable, incautious, inconsiderate, incorrect, incurious,
      indifferent, inelegant, inexact, inexcitable, infelicitous,
      informal, ingenuous, inobservant, insouciant, irresponsible,
      lackadaisical, lax, lazy, left-hand, left-handed, lenient,
      listless, loose, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpen, lumpish,
      mad, maladroit, messy, mindless, mussy, neglectful, negligent,
      nonchalant, oafish, oblivious, offhand, overeager,
      overenthusiastic, overindulgent, overpermissive, overzealous,
      perfunctory, permissive, phlegmatic, pococurante, poky, ponderous,
      precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, ragged, raggedy, rash,
      raunchy, reasonless, reckless, regardless, relaxed, remiss,
      respectless, ruinous, scraggly, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack,
      slap-bang, slapdash, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly,
      sluttish, soft, solecistic, sordid, squalid, stiff, stolid, tacky,
      tactless, tattered, thoughtless, turned-off, unanxious,
      uncalculating, uncaring, unconcerned, uncouth, undiplomatic,
      undiscriminating, unfastidious, unfit, ungainly, ungraceful,
      ungrammatic, unguarded, unhandy, unheedful, unheeding, uninquiring,
      uninterested, uninvolved, unkempt, unmarking, unmindful, unneat,
      unnoticing, unnoting, unobservant, unobserving, unprepared,
      unqualified, unready, unreasoning, unreflecting, unreflective,
      unremarking, unrestrained, unsightly, unsolicitous, unstudied,
      untactful, unthinking, unthorough, unthoughtful, untidy,
      untroubled, unwary, unwieldy, unworried, wanton, weak, wild,
      withdrawn, wrecking, wrong