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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Careless \Care"less\, adjective [AS. cearle['a]s.]
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; spontaneous; rash; as, a careless throw; a careless expression.
He framed the careless rhyme. --Beattie.
4. Not receiving care; uncared for. [R.]
Their many wounds and careless harms. --Spenser.
Syn: Negligent; heedless; thoughtless; unthinking; inattentive; incautious; remiss; supine; forgetful; regardless; inconsiderate; listless.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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" [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"; "the proverbial grasshopper--thoughtless of tomorrow"; "crushing the blooms with regardless tread" [syn: {careless(p)}, {thoughtless(p)}, {regardless}]
4: showing an unthinking lack of consideration; "a careless remark"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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