careless (the sense ‘heedless’ is the most freq.)
1.
free from care or anxiety
Wiv. V. v. 58
“Sleep she as sound as
careless infancy,”
Troil. V. v. 40, Ham. IV. vii. 79.
2.
uncared-for
Mac. I. iv. 11
“a careless
trifle”
;
All'sW. II. iii. 170
“the careless lapse Of
youth and ignorance”
(? read, with Dyce, “cureless”†; cf. Mer.V. IV. i.
142).
