Word Meanings - CARELESSNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being careless; heedlessness; negligenece; inattention.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CARELESSNESS)

• Indifference
• Triviality
• unimportance
• insignificance
• coolness
• carelessness
• apathy
• insensibility
• composure
• Neglect
• Negligence
• disregard
• omission
• failure
• default
• slight
• remissness
• Security
• Pledge
• guarantee
• warranty
• protection
• safeguard
• pawn
• deposit
• bond
• defence
• guard
• shelter
• safety
• certainty
• ease
• assurance
• confidence

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CARELESSNESS)

• Consider
• respect
• notice
• observe
• regard
• esteem
• tend
• attend
• foster
• study
• Redeem
• Expose
• surrender
• betray
• imperil
• endanger
• Regard

Related words: (words related to CARELESSNESS)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• CONFIDENCE
  1. The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in. Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity. South. A cheerful confidence in
• DEPOSITOR
  One who makes a deposit, especially of money in bank; -- the correlative of depository.
• GUARDIAN
  One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• DEFENCE
  See DEFENSE
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• SAFETY BICYCLE
  A bicycle with equal or nearly equal wheels, usually 28 inches diameter, driven by pedals connected to the rear wheel by a multiplying gear.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• SHELTERLESS
  Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.
• ESTEEM
  1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• NEGLIGENCE
  The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness. 2. An act or instance of negligence or carelessness. remarking his beauties, ... I must also point out his negligences and
• GUARDER
  One who guards.
• REDEEM
  Hence, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Gal. iii. 13. 5. To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• APATHY
  Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• UNCONSIDERED
  Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
• INTERPLEDGE
  To pledge mutually.
• COUNTERGUARD
  A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• UNREDEEMED
  Not redeemed.
• INCONSIDERATION
  Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.