Crossword clues for careless
careless
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Careless \Care"less\, a. [AS. cearle['a]s.]
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Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted.
--Spenser.Sleep she as sound as careless infancy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English carleas "free from anxiety; unconcerned," from care (n.) + -less; a compound probably from Proto-Germanic. Original senses extinct by mid-17c.; main modern meaning "not paying attention, inattentive, not taking due care" is first recorded 1560s (in carelessly).
Wiktionary
a. 1 (lb en archaic) Free from care; unworried, without anxiety. (from 11thc.) 2 Not concerned or worried (about). (from 11thc.) 3 Not giving sufficient attention or thought, especially concerning the avoidance of harm or mistakes. (from 16thc.)
WordNet
adj. 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]
effortless and unstudied; "an impression of careless elegance"; "danced with careless grace"
(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]
showing an unthinking lack of consideration; "a careless remark"
Wikipedia
Careless may refer to:
Careless is a 2006 novel by Australian author Deborah Robertson.
Careless is the first album by singer/songwriter Stephen Bishop. It includes two hit singles: " On and On", which peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard singles chart, and "Save It for a Rainy Day" which made it to No. 22. The album itself rose to No. 34 on the Billboard albums chart. Notable contributors to the album include Eric Clapton, Art Garfunkel and Chaka Khan.
Senilità (released in North America as Careless) is a 1962 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale and Anthony Franciosa.
Careless is the surname of:
- Betty Careless (c. 1704–1739), notorious courtesan and bagnio owner in London
- George Careless (1839–1932), Latter-day Saint composer and conductor
- J. M. S. Careless (1919–2009), Canadian historian from the University of Toronto
- William Careless, later known as William Carlos (c. 1610–1689), companion of King Charles II in his hiding in an oak tree in the English Civil War
"Careless" was the second single released by Australian rock group Paul Kelly and the Messengers from their 1989 studio album, So Much Water So Close to Home. The song was written by Kelly and co-produced with Scott Litt. The single was released in November 1989 on the Mushroom Records label. It reached the Top 100 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart. The song was later covered by Renée Geyer on Difficult Woman (1994), Angie Hart on Women at the Well (2002), and Ozi Batla (MC for The Herd) on Before Too Long (2010).
Usage examples of "careless".
Daniel of Kiev in himself is a very ordinary and rather mendacious traveller, a harmless, devout pilgrim, as careless in all matters of fact as Antonine the Martyr.
Alps and the Apennine, might view with careless despair the consequences of a defeat under the walls of Rome.
Who was Rossmere to ride Ascot with such careless ease when Richard had met his death on the huge brute?
The contemporaries of Moses and Joshua had beheld with careless indifference the most amazing miracles.
Birdsong tucked up her hair in a careless knot, and reached out her arms for the filmy wrap Bena had brought from the guest room.
Probably heading up toward some herd above on Level One, hoping to snatch a newborn or to take a few bites out of a careless Youth straying too far from the edge of the group.
Your roads are so good, compared to our own rutted bogholes, that I was careless.
Instinctively I looked for a second bird but, shading my eyes, saw only the leavings of the workmen hired to restore the house, a careless litter of chisels, brick hammers, bullnose planes, handsaws.
It was very unlikely indeed that Bunsen had been careless with locks and bolts.
M Didius Falco, famous for ungracious behaviour, lived up to his reputation with careless ease.
When all had passed, the Genoese turned in his saddle, and cast an apparently careless look behind.
This was polite of them, but it made the Gobbler more careless than ever of the way in which he spoke.
La Seeks Vengeance Swinging back through the jungle in a wide circle the ape-man came to the river at another point, drank and took to the trees again and while he hunted, all oblivious of his past and careless of his future, there came through the dark jungles and the open, parklike places and across the wide meadows, where grazed the countless herbivora of the mysterious continent, a weird and terrible caravan in search of him.
Shirtless and hipshot, the man leaned in idle solitude upon the rail, gazing fixedly out to sea, out to the edge where the world stopped and the clean sheet of blue sky was stained with the faintest discoloration, a careless smudge of charcoal that seemed to suggest that somewhere over the horizon there was fire upon the water.
Men and horses had breaking points, and the High Wild, when a man or a horse grew careless, always won.