(a.) Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted.
(a.) Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care; negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful; regardless.
(a.) Without thought or purpose; without due care; without attention to rule or system; unstudied; inconsiderate; spontaneous; rash; as, a careless throw; a careless expression.
(a.) Not receiving care; uncared for.
Example Sentences:
(1) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
(2) Failure to check, lack of vigilance and inattention or carelessness were the most frequently associated factors with the rest of the reports.
(3) If at times Van Gaal’s players let themselves down with careless concessions of possession, Carver knew his side had been reprieved when, back to goal, Wayne Rooney controlled the ball on his chest, swivelled and dinked a shot wide.
(4) "In this era where we see growing open-mindedness, his actions are muddle-headed and careless," said the letter, which was briefly posted to the internet before it was taken down by censors .
(5) Vardy has plenty of other qualities, however, and he played a key role in Leicester’s equaliser early in the second half, racing clear on the right after Wanyama’s careless header and crossing for Musa, who forced the ball past Hugo Lloris at the far post.
(6) His carelessness had returned the ball to City's opponents inside his own half twice in the opening quarter of an hour.
(7) Concerning the 16 year-old girl the authors think that medical malpractice and carelessness of the parents were involved.
(8) By random assignment, the nurses read one of four versions of the rape which varied in terms of whether or not the victim locked her car door (carelessness manipulation) and time of attack (5:00 p.m. or midnight).
(9) Like many public figures on the left, he has been far too careless with his favours.
(10) He claims the network’s carelessness and conduct with its Cairo-based staff resulted in harassment of al-Jazeera staff, raids on the office and eventually the detention and imprisonment of several staffers.
(11) As it is, the team were careless with a comfortable lead in Jamaica (but got away with it ), formidable in their movement against an outclassed Panama , and struggled to get going in the heat and altitude of their game against Honduras .
(12) People usually don't make silly, careless mistakes when they're motivated and working in a positive environment.
(13) Seventy seven percent of the exposures were seen during routine care, 28.5% were perceived as due to personal carelessness, 19.9% due to patient agitation, 33.5% as inherent to the procedure and 8.9% to abandonment of material.
(14) Most burns occurred in teenage boys (6) and all but 1 were the result of carelessness on the part of the burn victim.
(15) Blatant carelessness, misuse or improper maintenance of equipment, and intoxication are analyzed as contributory factors.
(16) What has happened, of course, is something entirely different – and the callously careless attitude of western governments to this has given the impression of western complicity to many (who are already steeped in a culture of conspiracy theories) in Iraq and the Middle East.
(17) As a German European, I am disappointed by the mixture of incapability and carelessness back home.
(18) The government’s response has been shamefully poor, marked by carelessness for the lives of ordinary people, and only really concerned with damage control and trying to ensure this does not affect the flow of investment,” said Edgardo Buscaglia, a leading expert in international organised crime and political corruption around the world.
(19) Wenger talked about his side committing "easy mistakes" and he might easily have been referring to Özil's carelessness before the goal that made it 3-1, playing a senseless pass to Mathieu Flamini, then watching Fernandinho steal in to bend a wonderful shot beyond Wojciech Szczesny.
(20) "From being driven, careless, impulsive, the new breed of shopper is a very careful spender.
Regardless
Definition:
(a.) Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity.
(a.) Not regarded; slighted.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, within 5 min potassium overcame the vanadate potentiation of ouabain binding regardless of the order in which it was added to the reaction mixture.
(2) Prior incubation of these antigens with test spleen cells in the agar gel effictively inhibited development of the vibriolytic plaques, regardless of antibody class.
(3) Minimal breast cancer should include lobular carcinoma in situ (lobular neoplasia) and ductal carcinoma in situ regardless of nodal status, and (tentatively) invasive carcinoma smaller than 1 cm in total diameter, if axillary lymph nodes are not involved.
(4) In this study we tested the hypothesis that regardless of concentration pattern and exposure rate the same exposure dose of O3 will induce the same spirometric response.
(5) The results indicate that, regardless of the photoperiod, no clear functional relationship can be found between the avian pineal gland and thyroid function, although a transitory increase in T4 levels was seen in both pinealectomized and sham-operated birds shortly after the operations.
(6) The results of conventional sciatic nerve stretching tests are usually evaluated regardless of patient age, gender or movements of the hip joint and spine.
(7) Cytoplasmic accumulation of such mRNAs as or c-fos, c-myc, beta-actin an ornithine decarboxylase occurred in serum-stimulated cells regardless of the presence of cytochalasin D, whereas that of thymidine kinase and histone H3 was blocked by the drug.
(8) Regardless of the habitual diet, a test meal accentuated the rate of triacylglycerol appearance in whole plasma and in the very low density lipoproteins of Triton WR-1339-treated monkeys, and the rate of increase of the protein component after feeding was slightly higher.
(9) The time for cervical dilatation from 7 to 10 cm and duration of the second stage of labor did not influence maternal morbidity or fetal outcome, regardless of the method of anesthesia.
(10) Infection in the granulocytopenic patient is often life-threatening, and the frequency and severity of infection are increased regardless of the cause of leukocyte suppression.
(11) The GI averaged approximately 1.0 throughout the study regardless of which mouthrinse was used.
(12) In contrast, complexes of both subclasses inhibited phagocytosis by human monocytes, regardless of the subclass of the inducing antibodies.
(13) The low incidence of pneumonia regardless of the type of therapy may be attributable to vigorous, vigilant respiratory care in a population at high risk for developing pneumonia.
(14) All other broad-spectrum benzimidazole anthelmintics, regardless of substituent at the 2 position (methyl carbamate or thiazolyl group), are flat.
(15) These data demonstrate that PTH induces bicarbonate and phosphate excretion regardless of whether carbonic anhydrase is intact or nearly 100% inhibited by acetazolamide.
(16) Although the entire cohort of neck patients, regardless of group assignment, improved significantly on all the outcome variables over the 6-week period, patients receiving intermittent traction performed significantly better than those assigned to the no traction group in terms of pain (P = 0.03), forward flexion (P = 0.01), right rotation (P = 0.004) and left rotation (P = 0.05).
(17) Immunoprecipitates were analysed by SDS-PAGE and considerable heterogeneity in antigen recognition between individual animals was observed, regardless of infection regimen.
(18) There was no difference in bile flow or biliary excretion rate, regardless of which bile acid sulfate was tested.
(19) Regardless of age, smoking pack-years, and nasal allergic reactions, the prevalence of asthma was significantly associated with the use of carbamate insecticides (prevalence odds ratio = 1.8, 95% confidence interval: 1.1 to 3.1, p = 0.02).
(20) The FLE and FE were present for all suspensions regardless of osmolality.