English-Portuguese translations for careless

• desleixado
• negligente
  Tem de haver um sistema de designação e de condenação das empresas negligentes. There must be a system of naming and shaming for those businesses that are careless.
  Muitos desses acidentes são provocados por condução negligente ou ilegal.Many of them are caused by careless or unauthorized driving.
  Na sequência de comportamentos negligentes, já muitas pessoas morreram da doença de Creutzfeldt-Jakob. Carelessness has led to the deaths of a number of people from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
• desatencioso
• descuidado
  O Gérard trabalhou com celeridade, mas não foi trapalhão, nem descuidado.Gérard has worked quickly but he has not been sloppy or careless.
  O aumento descuidado da despesa pública gera problemas, independentemente da moeda escolhida. Careless expansion of public expenditure will result in problems regardless of the choice of currency.
  Se, todavia, formos descuidados e o martelo nos cair em cima do pé, deixaremos de poder andar. If, however, we are careless and this hammer drops on our foot, then we shall be able to walk no further.

Definition of careless

• Not concerned or worried .
• Not giving sufficient attention or thought, especially concerning the avoidance of harm or mistakes.
• Free from care; unworried, without anxiety.

Examples

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

Related words

• carelessly
• carelessness
• set down carelessly