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careless
adjective as in without sufficient attention
Strongest matches
casual, forgetful, hasty, inaccurate, indifferent, indiscreet, irresponsible, lackadaisical, lax, negligent, nonchalant, reckless, sloppy, thoughtless, wasteful
Weak matches
absent-minded, abstracted, cursory, disregardful, heedless, improvident, imprudent, inadvertent, incautious, inconsiderate, indolent, injudicious, loose, mindless, napping, oblivious, offhand, perfunctory, pococurante, regardless, remiss, slipshod, uncircumspect, unconcerned, unguarded, unheeding, unmindful, unobservant, unreflective, unthinking
Example Sentences
A police motorcyclist who crashed into a pensioner while escorting the Duchess of Edinburgh through London has been found not guilty of causing death by careless driving.
Mr Gray, who denied the charge of death by careless driving, was told by Sheriff Euan Gosney: "You are free to go."
There was a frantic start, but a careless offside penalty conceded by Jenkins allowed Argentina the platform for Delgado to open the scoring.
I was talking to humans the way I had grown used to talking with AI—in other words, careless about manners.
Following the crash on the road – which connects the capital Kampala in the south to the northern city of Gulu – police urged motorists avoid "dangerous and careless overtaking".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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