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What is the adjective for carelessly?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs care, caretake and carefront which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

careful
  1. (obsolete) Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.
  2. (obsolete) Full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.
  3. Having care (for); attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.
  4. Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “A lot of problems can be avoided with careful planning.”
      “Please be careful during your holiday overseas.”
      “He is very careful with his money and saves at least a quarter of his pay every month.”
careless
  1. (archaic) Free from care; unworried, without anxiety. [from 11th c.]
  2. Not concerned or worried (about). [from 11th c.]
  3. Not giving sufficient attention or thought, especially concerning the avoidance of harm or mistakes. [from 16th c.]
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “It was a basic error, and I chastised myself for being so careless.”
      “An independent report found a clear demonstration of a lack of knowledge and a careless attitude to detail.”
      “The careless technique points to their being the creations of very inferior artisans.”
carefree
  1. Without cares; free of concern or worries; easy; casual; without difficulty.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “She felt a burden lifting off her shoulders and smiled at the carefree feeling that permeated her senses.”
      “Granny Lavinia had a loving and carefree nature, happy in her life with her husband Frank and the other three children.”
      “Rolfe Kent's sunny up-tempo soundtrack bubbles ironically along, its sixties Italian jazz the quintessence of carefree.”
caresome
  1. Marked by caring or characterised by care; careful; chary.
caring
carefool
  1. Eye dialect spelling of careful.
caretaker
carefull
  1. Obsolete spelling of careful
carelessest
  1. superlative form of careless: most careless
carefuller
  1. comparative form of careful: more careful
  2. Examples:
    1. “A carefuller study of the phenomenon reveals the fact that the seraphic strains are produced by the steam escaping from the hot-water bottles at the feet of the invalid.”
carefullest
  1. superlative form of careful: most careful
cared
caretaken
  1. past participle of caretake
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