(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.
Thoughtless
Definition:
(adv.) Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act.
(adv.) Giddy; gay; dissipated.
(adv.) Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull.
Example Sentences:
(1) The few who enjoy themselves thoughtlessly, going against the green Glastonbury ethos , spoil it for the many.
(2) Maybe this is symptomatic of how the possibilities of social media have just made our friendships shallower, an economy of “likes” and thoughtless “adds”.
(3) The poor take up of hearing aids stems partly from the somewhat thoughtless and ill-informed public attitude to hearing impairment and partly from weaknesses in service provision.
(4) Moreover, are schoolchildren thoughtlessly taunting each other with slang such as: "That's just straight"?
(5) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
(6) In excerpts of these videos I am shown making a series of glib, thoughtless and sometimes downright insulting comments”, Gruber told the committee.
(7) Of course, that does not make it OK. At best these were the thoughtless actions of immature young men.
(8) Bullying does happen, but often it's thoughtless rather than vindictive.
(9) The story in the US is about bad clinics doing awful things, of violence against providers, and of women who are ignorant, thoughtless and irresponsible.” Recruited as part of the first batch of legal abortion counsellors in Texas, Glenna joined Curtis at his first clinic, the Fairmount Center in Dallas, in 1974.
(10) It provides an extraordinary biophysical basis for traditional psychology, including trans-personal experiences down to the ultimate state of thoughtless consciousness.
(11) He was dismissed from his teaching post for thoughtlessly informing his boys that the universe was (contra Genesis) millions of years old.
(12) The anamnesis confirms the frequently thoughtless prescription of phenacetin-containing medicaments and emphasizes their sequelae.
(13) Thoughtlessly, I stood up, as I used to in Lahore when the national anthem was played, only to be greeted with a uniform chant from the row behind: "Sit down, you fascist!"
(14) Gras describes Cameron's proposal as "thoughtless", "probably suggested by [some spin doctor] probably came from some focus group", and that the British prime minister "didn't think through the consequences".
(15) Health experts and women's rights campaigners were also angered, saying he had thoughtlessly resurrected a highly sensitive debate that none of the main parties wants to reopen.
(16) "I am deeply sorry and greatly regret the upset and distress that my juvenile and thoughtless remarks on the Russell Brand show have caused," Ross said.
(17) The family is outraged that rather than comfort a sister coming to the aid of her dying brother, the officers instead manhandled and tackled her, cuffed her and thoughtlessly tossed her in the back of a patrol car.” Another lawyer for the family, Walter Madison, told NOMG: “This has to be the cruelest thing I’ve ever seen.” On 22 November the siblings were playing at a local park, Tamir with his replica handgun.
(18) He tells me to empty my mind of all thoughts, but this is easier said than done, and I start pondering the impossibility of thoughtlessness.
(19) These are not Luddites or fogeys, they are not enemies of business or of the new, but they share simple shock at the thoughtlessness with which change on this scale is happening.
(20) Instead of persisting with thoughtless pay caps and encouraging divisive bidding wars for a share of 1% the government should be engaging in a positive discussion about the setting of public sector pay,” said the FDA’s assistant general secretary, Naomi Cooke.