Definition of Careless

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Careless

Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted.

Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care; negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful; regardless.

Without thought or purpose; without due care; without attention to rule or system; unstudied; inconsiderate; spontaneous; rash; as, a careless throw; a careless expression.

Not receiving care; uncared for.

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Careless Quotations

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
Mark Twain

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
Wilson Mizner

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
Robert Browning

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
Honore De Balzac

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
David Hume

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
Irving Babbitt

Careless Translations

careless in Dutch is nonchalant, nalatig, onachtzaam
careless in Hungarian is gondtalan, gondatlan
careless in Italian is abborracciatamente, incauto, leggiero
careless in Latin is incuriosus
careless in Portuguese is descuidado
careless in Spanish is incauto, atolondrado, sin cuidado, negligente

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