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# carelessly

«carelessly» in Mova's school dictionary: **Without enough care or attention, so mistakes or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (carelessly, more carelessly, most carelessly); from «careless»

### meaning for a pupil

1) Without enough care or attention, so mistakes or accidents happen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carelessly/#m1)

2) In a relaxed way that shows you are not worried: «She tossed her bag carelessly onto the bed». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carelessly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school and maths, working carelessly leads to silly mistakes such as copying a number wrong. In safety, crossing the road or handling knives carelessly can cause accidents. In stories it shows a character not paying attention. Phrases: drive carelessly, carelessly left.

### examples

- He carelessly left the gate open and the dog ran out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carelessly/#x1)
- I wrote my answer carelessly and got it wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carelessly/#x2)
- She carelessly dropped her phone in the puddle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carelessly/#x3)
- Don't cross the road carelessly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carelessly/#x4)
- The driver was fined for driving carelessly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carelessly/#x5)
- He threw his coat carelessly over the chair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carelessly/#x6)
- “We are hunting,” said Baloo carelessly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carelessly/#x7)

### note

Spelling: care + less + ly. Opposite: «carefully». In maths a careless mistake is a slip, not a lack of understanding — check your work.

### In the corpora

- [Toad: «What carts I shall fling carelessly into the ditch in the wake of my magnificent onset!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/25/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «carelessly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carelessly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.