carelessness
Syllables: care·less·nessUK/ˈkɛələsnəs//ˈkɛɹləsnəs/
carelessness noun: lack of care; the state or quality of being careless.
Noun
carelessness (countable and uncountable, plural carelessnesses)
- Lack of care; the state or quality of being careless.
- This accident was caused by carelessness.
- 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.1960 December, “Talking of Trains: B.R. safety in 1959”, in Trains Illustrated, page 708
- Synonyms:
- inattention, negligence
carelessness meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Telugu and Malayalam
carelessness in Hindi
- lack of care
- लापरवाही lāparvāhī, निश्चिंतता niścinttā, बेफ़िक्री befikrī
carelessness in Urdu
- لاابالی پن
carelessness in Telugu
- lack of care
- అజాగ్రత ajāgrata
carelessness in Malayalam
- carelessness, inadvertence
- അശ്രദ്ധ aśraddha
More languagesFewer languages
- carelessness in Kannada
- ಎಚ್ಚರಗೇಡಿತನ, ಅಜಾಗರೂಕತೆ, ನಿರ್ಲಕ್ಷ್ಯತೆ, ಅಸಡ್ಡೆಯಾಗಿರುವಿಕೆ
- carelessness in Gujarati
- બેદરકારી bedarkārī
- carelessness in Sanskrit
- प्रमाद pramā́da
- carelessness in Tagalog
- kapabayaan
- carelessness in Vietnamese
- sự bất cẩn
Synonyms of carelessness
Antonyms
Forms of carelessness
| plural | carelessnesses |
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Origin of carelessness
From Middle English *carelesnes, *carlesnesse, from Old English carlēasnes (“freedom from care, security, carelessness”), equivalent to careless + -ness.
Questions about carelessness
- What does carelessness mean?
- Carelessness means lack of care; the state or quality of being careless.
- What is carelessness in Hindi?
- Carelessness in Hindi is लापरवाही (lāparvāhī), निश्चिंतता (niścinttā), बेफ़िक्री (befikrī). See Carelessness meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is carelessness?
- Carelessness is a noun.
- How do you pronounce carelessness?
- Carelessness is pronounced /ˈkɛɹləsnəs/ (US).
- What is the plural of carelessness?
- The plural of carelessness is carelessnesses.
Words near carelessness in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: carelessness (page history and authors); carelessness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); അശ്രദ്ധ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); carelessness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); બેદરકારી (Gujarati) (page history and authors); प्रमाद (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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