Antonyms for Careful
ˌkɛər fəlcare·ful

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1. carefuladjective

   Antonyms:
   careless

2. carefuladjective

   Antonyms:
   careless

3. carefuladjective

   Antonyms:
   careless

4. carefuladjective

   He was a slow and careful driver.

   Antonyms:
   careless

5. carefuladjective

   They made a careful search of the crimescene.

   Antonyms:
   careless

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. careful

   Vigilant implies more sustained activity and more intelligent volition than alert; one may be habitually alert by reason of native quickness of perception and thought, or one may be momentarily alert under some excitement or expectancy; one who is vigilant is so with thoughtful purpose. One is vigilant against danger or harm; he may be alert or watchful for good as well as against evil; he is wary in view of suspected stratagem, trickery, or treachery. A person may be wakeful because of some merely physical excitement or excitability, as through insomnia; yet he may be utterly careless and negligent in his wakefulness, the reverse of watchful; a person who is truly watchful must keep himself wakeful while on watch, in which case wakeful has something of mental quality. Watchful, from the Saxon, and vigilant, from the Latin, are almost exact equivalents; but vigilant has somewhat more of sharp definiteness and somewhat more suggestion of volition; one may be habitually watchful; one is vigilant of set purpose and for direct cause, as in the presence of an enemy. Compare ALERT.

   Antonyms:
   careless, drowsy, dull, heedless, inattentive, incautious, inconsiderate, neglectful, negligent, oblivious, thoughtless, unwary

   Synonyms:
   alert, awake, cautious, circumspect, on the alert, on the lookout, sleepless, vigilant, wakeful, wary, watchful, wide-awake

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1. carefuladjective

   exercising caution or showing care or attention

   "they were careful when crossing the busy street"; "be careful to keep her shoes clean"; "did very careful research"; "careful art restorers"; "careful of the rights of others"; "careful about one's behavior"

   Antonyms:
   mindless, heedless, hurried, haphazard, casual, reckless, forgetful, careless, slipshod, slapdash, sloppy, improvident, untroubled, incautious, passing(a), cursory, offhand, offhanded, perfunctory, unmindful

   Synonyms:
   deliberate, thrifty, heedful, measured

2. careful, heedfuladjective

   cautiously attentive

   "careful of her feelings"; "heedful of his father's advice"

   Antonyms:
   sloppy, hurried, passing(a), reckless, cursory, careless, incautious, slapdash, untroubled, perfunctory, casual, slipshod, improvident, forgetful, unmindful, offhanded, heedless, mindless, haphazard, offhand

   Synonyms:
   thoughtful, thrifty, paying attention, careful, advertent, attentive, heedful, measured, deliberate

3. careful, deliberate, measuredadjective

   unhurried and with care and dignity

   "walking at the same measured pace"; "with all deliberate speed"

   Antonyms:
   casual, incautious, slipshod, forgetful, perfunctory, offhanded, mindless, passing(a), slapdash, unmindful, hurried, reckless, careless, offhand, cursory, heedless, sloppy, untroubled, haphazard, improvident

   Synonyms:
   metric, thrifty, heedful, careful, mensurable, metrical, measured, deliberate, calculated, mensural

4. carefuladjective

   full of cares or anxiety

   "Thou art careful and troubled about many things"-Luke 10.41

   Antonyms:
   reckless, offhand, unmindful, mindless, careless, improvident, cursory, forgetful, hurried, heedless, passing(a), casual, haphazard, incautious, offhanded, slipshod, untroubled, perfunctory, slapdash, sloppy

   Synonyms:
   deliberate, thrifty, heedful, measured

5. careful, thriftyadjective

   mindful of the future in spending money

   "careful with money"

   Antonyms:
   forgetful, careless, mindless, passing(a), untroubled, improvident, incautious, perfunctory, unmindful, hurried, slipshod, haphazard, heedless, casual, offhanded, slapdash, offhand, cursory, sloppy, reckless

   Synonyms:
   deliberate, thrifty, heedful, measured, careful

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1. carefuladjective

   Synonyms:
   cautious, watchful, provident, chary, attentive, circumspect, considerate, heedful, prudent, discreet, wary, mindful, choice, sparing, observant

How to use Careful in a sentence?

1. Claudio Semini:

   Compared to other teams in China and the U.S. we have focused a lot on the versatility. So this (HyQ) platform can do many different motions ranging from very fast motions like a run or a jump. But it can also do the more careful navigation on rough terrain where we need to plan really one foothold after the next. And this is important, once we see the 3D map of the environment we can start to understand how to best move through that environment, we don't want to be the fastest or the best climber, but we want to have a machine that can do many of these motions; as in the real world, the machine will need to have many different skills.

2. Daniel Mihalescu:

   We don't buy from them but install the flooring when a customer asks. We are definitely asking our customers to be careful and ask questions about where the product comes from.

3. Chris Nowinski:

   It actually increases head-to-head contact because people are less careful.

4. Wes Bush:

   I would be careful about making prognostications that that (contract award) alone has a reshaping impact on the industry.

5. Chen Chien-jen:

   Very careful contact tracing, and very stringent quarantines of close contacts are the best way to contain Covid-19.

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