Synonyms of carelessness

carelessness

noun

as in negligence

failure to take the care that a cautious person usually takes

the only errors you made were from carelessness, not lack of knowledge

Synonyms & Similar Words

• negligence
• neglectfulness
• neglect
• laxness
• heedlessness
• remissness
• recklessness
• omission
• slackness
• incaution
• incautiousness
• dereliction
• foolhardiness
• rashness
• irresponsibility
• wildness
• malfeasance
• misconduct
• malpractice
• mismanagement
• forgetfulness
• inattention
• inattentiveness
• mishandling
• inadvertence
• inadvertency
• delinquency
• misdirection
• shortsightedness
• obliviousness
• irresponsibleness
• unwariness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• care
• carefulness
• caution
• awareness
• attention
• alertness
• attentiveness
• cautiousness
• vigilance
• watchfulness
• responsibility
• circumspection
• observance
• heedfulness
• responsibleness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of carelessness

It gets filed alongside carelessness, disorganization and not really trying, and the people who display it often apologize for it as though they’d been caught slacking. — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Either this is an issue of carelessness or a lack of communication between you and the cleaning service. — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026

Some of those losses stemmed from carelessness, with his supreme confidence occasionally straying into casualness. — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 22 July 2026

Once, administrators confronted him about the carelessness of his grading. — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 31 May 2026

That's not chance or carelessness. — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 28 May 2026

The company has built its identity around taking AI safety more seriously than its rivals, creating sky-high expectations for model security that jar with its apparent carelessness; the fact that Mythos was exposed through such a basic and predictable failure only underscores that. — Robert Hart, The Verge, 23 Apr. 2026

Most bark problems come from carelessness from mowing or weed-eating too close to the tree, stripping off the bark and allowing entry. — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026

Carl vents to Jesse and Ben, saying Kyle’s snub represents more than carelessness. — Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026