Carelessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɛəlɪs/, /ˈkɛələs/
• (General American) IPA: /kɛɹ.ləs/, /kɛɚ.ləs/
• (General Australian) IPA: /keː.ləs/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA: /kiə.ləs/
• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA: /keə.ləs/
• (Scotland) IPA: /keɹ.ləs/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA: /kɜː(ɹ).ləs/
• 韻: -ɛə(ɹ)ləs

形容詞

careless (comparative more careless, superlative most careless)

1. Not concerned or worried (about). [from 11c.]
   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IV, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     "He was here," observed Drina composedly, "and father was angry with him."
     "What?" exclaimed Eileen. "When?"
     "This morning, before father went downtown."
     Both Selwyn and Lansing cut in coolly, dismissing the matter with a careless word or two; and coffee was served—cambric tea in Drina's case.

2. Not giving sufficient attention or thought, especially concerning the avoidance of harm or mistakes. [from 16c.]

   Synonyms: negligent, reckless; see also Thesaurus:careless

   Jessica was so careless that she put her shorts on backwards.

   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 132:

     These ballads, none of which are later than the fifteenth century, are written in a strain of the most artless simplicity, not the slightest attempt at ornament is to be discerned in them; the same ideas and expressions continually recur, and the rimes are the most careless imaginable, often a mere assonnance in vowels or consonants, sometimes not possessing even that slight similarity of sound.

   • 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 35:

     I don't find the pose of careless youth charming and engaging any more than you find the pose of careworn age fascinating and eccentric, I should imagine.

3. (archaic) Free from care; unworried, without anxiety. [from 11c.]

   Synonyms: laid-back, unconcerned; see also Thesaurus:carefree

   Jessica was careless about putting her shorts on properly.

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 27, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     Good-humored, easy, and careless, he presided over his whale-boat as if the most deadly encounter were but a dinner, and his crew all invited guests.

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