careless

Main Entry:
careless [kair-lis]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: without sufficient attention
Synonyms: absent-minded, abstracted, casual, cursory, disregardful, forgetful, hasty, heedless, improvident, imprudent, inaccurate, inadvertent, incautious, inconsiderate, indifferent, indiscreet, indolent, injudicious, irresponsible, lackadaisical, lax, loose, mindless, napping, negligent, nonchalant, oblivious, offhand, perfunctory, pococurante, reckless, regardless, remiss, slipshod, sloppy, thoughtless, uncircumspect, unconcerned, unguarded, unheeding, unmindful, unobservant, unreflective, unthinking, wasteful
Notes: carefree means free of trouble and worry and care while careless means marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful
Antonyms: accurate, attentive, careful, cautious, concerned, mindful, painstaking, prudent, ready, thoughtful
Main Entry: absent-minded
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: out to lunch
Synonyms: absent, absorbed, abstracted, airheaded, airheaded, bemused, careless, daydreaming, distracted, distrait, dreaming, dreamy, engrossed, faraway, forgetful, goofing off, head in the clouds, heedless, inattentive, inconscient, lost, mooning, moony, oblivious, out to lunch, pipe dreaming, preoccupied, remote, removed, scatterbrained, space cadet, spacey, spacey, surroundings, unaware of events, unconscious, unheeding, unmindful, unobservant, unthinking, withdrawn, woolgathering
Antonyms: alert, attentive, aware
Main Entry: aimless
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: having no goal
Synonyms: accidental, any which way, bits-and-pieces, blind, capricious, careless, casual, chance, desultory, directionless, drifting, erratic, fanciful, fickle, fits and starts, flighty, fortuitous, frivolous, goalless, haphazard, heedless, hit-or-miss, indecisive, indiscriminate, irresolute, objectless, pointless, purposeless, random, shiftless, stray, thoughtless, unavailing, undirected, unguided, unplanned, unpredictable, vagrant, wandering, wanton, wayward
Antonyms: determined, directed, goal-oriented, motivated, pointed, purposeful, resolute
Main Entry: bad
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: poor quality
Synonyms: abominable, amiss, atrocious, awful, bad news, beastly, blah*, bottom out, bummer, careless, cheap, cheesy*, crappy*, cruddy, crummy, defective, deficient, diddly, dissatisfactory, downer, dreadful, erroneous, fallacious, faulty, garbage, godawful, grody, gross*, grungy, icky, imperfect, inadequate, incorrect, inferior, junky, lousy*, not good, off, poor, raunchy*, rough, sad, slipshod, stinking, substandard, synthetic, the pits, unacceptable, unsatisfactory
Notes: badly is an adverb to describe an activity; bad is an adjective to describe a condition or state
Antonyms: good, honest, reputable, right, upright, virtuous, worthy
Main Entry: blind
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: indifferent
Synonyms: careless, heedless, ignorant, imperceptive, inattentive, inconsiderate, indiscriminate, injudicious, insensitive, myopic, nearsighted, neglectful, oblivious, thoughtless, unaware, unconscious, undiscerning, unmindful, unobservant, unperceiving, unreasoning, unseeing
Antonyms: aware, cunning, quick, sharp, understanding
Main Entry: callous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cruel, insensitive
Synonyms: apathetic, blind to, careless, case-hardened, cold, cold-blooded, deaf to, hard, hard-bitten, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, impassive, impenitent, indifferent, indurated, inflexible, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, inured, obdurate, soulless, spiritless, stiff, stony, stubborn, thick-skinned, torpid, tough, toughened, unaffected, unbending, uncaring, uncompassionate, unconcerned, unfeeling, unimpressionable, unresponsive, unsusceptible, unsympathetic
Notes: callus is a hard patch of skin; callous is an adjective meaning 'indifferent to suffering' or 'hardened'
Antonyms: compassionate, feeling, kind, nice, sensitive, sympathetic, tender
Main Entry: capricious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: given to sudden behavior change
Synonyms: any way the wind blows, arbitrary, blowing hot and cold, careless, changeful, contrary, crotchety, effervescent, erratic, every which way, fanciful, fickle, fitful, flaky*, flighty, freakish, gaga, helter-skelter, humorsome, impulsive, inconstant, kinky*, lubricious, mercurial, moody, mutable, notional, odd, picky*, punchy, queer, quirky, temperamental, ticklish, unpredictable, unreasonable, unstable, up and down, vagarious, variable, volatile, wayward, whimsical, yo-yo
Antonyms: constant, dependable, sensible, staid, steadfast, steady
Main Entry: carefree
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lighthearted, untroubled
Synonyms: airy, at ease, blithe, breezy, buoyant, calm, careless, cheerful, cheery, cool, easy, easy-going, feelgood, happy, happy-go-lucky, insouciant, jaunty, jovial, laid back, radiant, secure, sunny, unanxious, unbothered
Notes: carefree means free of trouble and worry and care while careless means marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful
Antonyms: anxious, heavyhearted, troubled, worried
Main Entry: cursory
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: casual, hasty
Synonyms: brief, careless, depthless, desultory, fast, half-assed, half-baked, haphazard, hit or miss, hurried, offhand, passing, perfunctory, quick, random, rapid, shallow, short, sketchy, slapdash, slight, sloppy, speedy, summary, superficial, swift, uncritical
Notes: cursory means 'superficial'; cursorial is 'pertaining or adapted to running'
Antonyms: complete, meticulous, painstaking, perfect, thorough, unhurried
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