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单词 careless
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carelesscareless /ˈkerləs/ adjective careless
not paying enough attention to what you are doing so that you make mistakes, damage things, or cause problems:
  • Her work is full of careless mistakes.
  • The company was careless about security before the computers were stolen.
  • reckless
    behaving in a dangerous way and not thinking about your safety or the safety of other people:
  • The police arrested him for reckless driving after he drove through several red lights at 60 miles per hour.
  • irresponsible
    careless because you do not think about the bad or dangerous effects that your actions may have on other people:
  • It was irresponsible of her to leave small children at home alone.
  • rash
    if you do something rash, you do not think carefully about the effect your action will have, and you wish later you had not done it. Rash is used more often to describe actions than to describe people:
  • Don't make any rash promises that you may regret later.
  • negligent
    careless because you do not do your job correctly. Negligent is used in legal language:
  • The court decided that the doctor was negligent because he used the wrong medicine.
  • clumsy
    often falling or dropping things, because you move in a careless way:
  • They have a large clumsy dog that is always knocking things off tables with his tail.
  • ANTONYMS ➔ see carefulADVERBS: carelessYou can make the adjectives that mean careless into adverbs by using an -ly ending: He threw his coat carelessly onto the couch instead of hanging it up. | Luke was arrested for driving recklessly. | She ran clumsily up the street, almost tripping over her own feet.
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