careless
/ˈkɛːləs/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈkɛːləs/
careless
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ca - re - less -> careless
Myanmar meaning
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More examples
- Try not to be so careless next time!
- [it was careless of someone] : It was very careless of you to leave the medicine where the children could get it.
- A careless piece of work
- Careless driving
- [careless of/about] : An administration that is careless of press freedom
- A lazy, almost careless gesture
- A careless laugh
- It had been a careless, happy time.
Synonyms
slapdash, not careful, happy-go-lucky, casual, slipshod, sloppy, hasty, lackadaisical, absent-minded, abstracted, artless, cavalier, cursory, disregardful, forgetful, heedless, improvident, imprudent, inaccurate, inadvertent, incautious, inconsiderate, indifferent, indiscreet, indolent, injudicious, insensitive, irresponsible, lax, loose, mindless, modest, naive, napping, natural, negligent, nonchalant, oblivious, offhand, perfunctory, pococurante, rash, reckless, regardless, remiss, simple, thoughtless, uncaring, uncircumspect, unconcerned, unguarded, unheeding, unmindful, unobservant, unreflective, unstudied, unsympathetic, unthinking, wasteful
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