carelessness

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r-der.

Proto-Germanic *karō

Proto-West Germanic *karu

Old English caru

Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.

Proto-Germanic *leusaną

Proto-Germanic *lausaz

Proto-Germanic *-lausaz

Proto-West Germanic *-laus

Old English -lēas

Old English carlēas

Proto-Germanic *-in-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

Proto-Germanic *-inōną

Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-

Proto-Germanic *-atjaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Germanic *-þuz

Proto-Germanic *-assuz

Proto-Germanic *-inassuz

Proto-West Germanic *-nassī

Old English -nes

Old English carlēasnes

Middle English *carelesnes

English carelessness

From Middle English *carelesnes, *carlesnesse, from Old English carlēasnes (“freedom from care, security, carelessness”), equivalent to careless +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛɹləsnəs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛələsnəs/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: care‧less‧ness

Noun

carelessness (countable and uncountable, plural carelessnesses)

1. Lack of care; the state or quality of being careless.

   This accident was caused by carelessness.

   • 1960 December, “Talking of Trains: B.R. safety in 1959”, in Trains Illustrated, page 708:

     There were, however, 34 deaths among passengers in movement accidents, due mainly to misadventure and carelessness when entering and leaving trains in motion, falling off platforms and out of carriages, and opening and closing carriage doors.

Synonyms

• inattention
• negligence

Antonyms

• carefulness

Related terms

• careless

Translations

lack of care — see also imprudence,‎ negligence

• Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: лекомисленост f (lekomislenost)
• Catalan: descurança f, negligència (ca) f, desídia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 粗心 (zh) (cūxīn), 大意 (zh) (dàyì), 草率 (zh) (cǎoshuài)

• Czech: lehkomyslnost (cs), nedbalost (cs) f, ledabylost (cs) f,
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: onvoorzichtigheid (nl), onoplettendheid (nl), achteloosheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: malzorgeco, senzorgeco
• Finnish: huolimattomuus (fi), varomattomuus (fi)
• French: négligence (fr), incurie (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Unvorsichtigkeit (de) f, Leichtsinn (de) m
• Greek: απροσεξία (el) f (aprosexía)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: लापरवाही (hi) f (lāparvāhī), निश्चिंतता f (niścinttā), बेफ़िक्री f (befikrī)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
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• Irish: leibideacht f
• Italian: negligenza (it) f
• Japanese: 軽率 (ja) (けいそつ, kēsotsu), 不注意 (ja) (ふちゅうい, fuchūi), 油断 (ja) (ゆだん、yudan)
• Kazakh: абайламаушылық (abailamauşylyq), абайсыздық (abaisyzdyq), аңғалдық (añğaldyq), алаңғасарлық (alañğasarlyq), қамсыздық (qamsyzdyq), бейқамдық (beiqamdyq), ұқыпсыздық (ūqypsyzdyq)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: indīligentia f, incūria f, neglegentia f
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• Polish: lekkomyślność (pl), bezmyślność (pl) f
• Portuguese: descuido (pt) m, negligência (pt) f
• Romanian: nepăsare (ro)
• Russian: беззабо́тность (ru) (bezzabótnostʹ), легкомы́сленность (ru) (lexkomýslennostʹ), легкомы́слие (ru) n (lexkomýslije)
• Serbo-Croatian: nȅmār (sh) m, nèbriga (sh) f
• Slovak: ledabolosť f
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• Spanish: descuido (es) m, dejadez (es), desprevención f, imprevisión (es) f
• Swedish: vårdslöshet (sv) c, oaktsamhet (sv) c, lättsinne (sv) n
• Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: అజాగ్రత (te) (ajāgrata)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: sự bất cẩn

Anagrams

• racelessness