Synonyms: careless
Definition: effortless and unstudied
Usage: an impression of careless elegance; danced with careless grace
Similar words: artless
Definition: simple and natural; without cunning or deceit
Usage: an artless manner; artless elegance
Synonyms: careless
Definition: marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful
Usage: careless about her clothes; forgotten by some careless person; a careless housekeeper; careless proofreading; it was a careless mistake; hurt by a careless remark
Similar words: casual, passing, perfunctory, cursory
Definition: hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
Usage: a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws; a passing glance; perfunctory courtesy
Similar words: haphazard, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy
Definition: marked by great carelessness
Usage: a most haphazard system of record keeping; slapdash work; slipshod spelling; sloppy workmanship
Similar words: reckless, heedless
Definition: characterized by careless unconcern
Usage: the heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes- Edith Wharton; reckless squandering of public funds
Similar words: incautious
Definition: carelessly failing to exercise proper caution
Usage: an incautious step sent her headlong down the stairs
Similar words: offhand, offhanded
Definition: casually thoughtless or inconsiderate
Usage: an offhand manner; she treated most men with offhand contempt
Synonyms: regardless, careless
Definition: (usually followed by `of') without due thought or consideration
Usage: careless of the consequences; crushing the blooms with regardless tread
Similar words: heedless, unheeding
Definition: marked by or paying little heed or attention
Usage: We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics--Franklin D. Roosevelt; heedless of danger; heedless of the child's crying