carelessness

Word Origin & History

Old English carleasnes; see careless + -ness.

They are victims of their elders' folly, of our carelessness as to their environment.

It is all our ignorance and carelessness; all the result of broken law.

He is incapable of envy or avarice, whether from virtue or from carelessness.

And all these arrangements had been upset by the carelessness of a domestic.

He saw how it had happened through Buckhurst's carelessness.

His carelessness about his character is one of his excuses: a very bad one.

And his carelessness might have been due to the familiarity of the trail to the pool.

She must have been really kind, for she never resented any petulance or carelessness.

At first she was tempted to turn away her eye with carelessness and inattention.

The carelessness with which its lessons are received.to what is mortal is essential.

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noun unconcern

noun. abandon

noun. indifference

noun. delinquency

noun. rashness

noun. recklessness

noun. consistent inability to remember