carefree

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r-der.

Proto-Germanic *karō

Proto-West Germanic *karu

Old English caru

Middle English care

English care

Proto-Indo-European *preyH-

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *priHós

Proto-Germanic *frijwaz

Proto-West Germanic *friu

Old English frēo

Middle English -fre

English -free

English carefree

From care + -free.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛəfɹiː/, [ˈkɛːfɹɪi̯]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛɚfɹi/, [ˈkɛɹ̩fɹɪi̯]

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: care‧free

Adjective

carefree (comparative more carefree, superlative most carefree)

1. Without cares or worries; free of concern or worries; without difficulty.

   Synonyms: laid-back, unconcerned; see also Thesaurus:carefree

   He left his cell phone behind and enjoyed a carefree summer day at the beach.

   • 1964, Sol Marcus, Gloria Caldwell, Bennie Benjamin, “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”, performed by Nina Simone:

     You know: sometimes, baby, I'm so carefree / With a joy that's hard to hide

   • 2013 July 31, Thom Patterson, “How to get soaking wet this summer”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Many of these parks still honor the lazy, carefree tradition of floating down a slow-moving stream in an inflated inner tube.

Derived terms

• carefreedom
• carefreely
• carefreeness

Descendants

• → Cantonese: 茄哩啡 (ke1 le1 fe1)

Translations

worry free, light hearted, etc.

• Arabic: مُرْتَاحُ اَلْبَالِ (murtāḥu l-bāli), خَالِي اَلْقَلْبِ (ḵālī l-qalbi)
• Armenian: անհոգ (hy) (anhog), արխային (hy) (arxayin)
• Azerbaijani: qayğısız, qəmsiz, arxayın, dərdsiz, asudə
• Belarusian: бесклапо́тны (be) (bjesklapótny), бестурбо́тны (bjesturbótny)
• Bulgarian: небре́жен (bg) (nebréžen), немарли́в (bg) (nemarlív), безгри́жен (bg) (bezgrížen)
• Catalan: despreocupat
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 暢快 / 畅快 (zh) (chàngkuài), 無憂無慮的 / 无忧无虑的 (zh) (wúyōuwúlǜ de)

• Czech: bezstarostný m, lehkomyslný (cs)
• Danish: sorgløs (da), ubekymret, sorgfri, bekymringsfri, bekymringsløs
• Dutch: onbekommerd (nl), onverschillig (nl)
• Esperanto: malzorga, senzorga, gaja (eo)
• Estonian: muretu
• Finnish: huoleton (fi), suruton (fi)
• French: insouciant (fr)
• Georgian: უზრუნველი (uzrunveli), უდარდელი (udardeli), გულარხეინი (gularxeini), არხეინი (arxeini)
• German: sorglos (de), sorgenfrei (de), unbekümmert (de)
• Greek: ξένοιαστος (el) (xénoiastos)

  Ancient Greek: ἀμέριμνος (amérimnos)

• Hebrew: חסר־דאגות m (khasar-daagot), חסרת־דאגות f (khasrat-daagot)
• Hindi: निश्चिंत (hi) (niścint)
• Hungarian: gondtalan (hu)
• Icelandic: áhyggjulaus (is), kátur
• Indonesian: periang (id)
• Ingrian: hooletoin
• Italian: libero da preoccupazioni, spensierato (it) m
• Japanese: 呑気な (ja) (のんきな, nonki na), 気軽な (ja) (きがるな, kigaru na), のんびりとした (ja) (nonbiri to shita)
• Korean: 태평한 (taepyeonghan)
• Latin: sēcūrus m
• Latvian: bezrūpīgs, nebēdīgs
• Lithuanian: lengvabūdiškas
• Macedonian: безгрижен (bezgrižen)
• Māori: korehere, mataraharaha
• Norwegian: ubekymret, sorgløs, bekymringsløs, ubekymra
• Polish: beztroski (pl), bezkłopotliwy (dated), niefrasobliwy (pl)
• Portuguese: despreocupado (pt)
• Romanian: lipsit de griji, nepăsător (ro)
• Russian: беззабо́тный (ru) (bezzabótnyj), беспе́чный (ru) (bespéčnyj), легкомы́сленный (ru) (lexkomýslennyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: coma
• Serbo-Croatian: безбрижан, bèzbrižan (sh)
• Slovak: bezstarostný, ľahkomyselný
• Slovene: lahkomiseln
• Spanish: despreocupado (es), sin preocupaciones
• Swedish: bekymmerslös (sv), sorgfri (sv)
• Turkish: kaygısız (tr)
• Ukrainian: безтурбо́тний (uk) (bezturbótnyj), легкова́жний (lehkovážnyj)