Legal Definition and Related Resources of Careless
Meaning of Careless
Negligent, failure to take due care. The law concerns itself with carelessness only when there is a duty to take care and where failure in that duty has caused damage . In such circumstances carelessness assumes the legal quality of negligence and entails consequences in law of negligence. See Wingfield v director of agriculture , 105 Cal. Rptr. 619, 29 C.A.3d209.
Synonyms of Careless
adjective
- casual
- cursory
- disregardful
- forgetful
- hasty
- heedless
- hurried
- impetuous
- improvident
- imprudent
- impulsive
- inadvertent
- inattentive
- incautious
- inconsiderate
- indifferent
- indiscreet
- injudicious
- insouciant
- irresponsible
- lackadaisical
- lax
- loose
- neglectful
- neglegens
- negligent
- nonchalant
- oblivious
- overhastv
- perfunctory
- pococurante
- precipitant
- precipitate
- rash
- reckless
- regardless
- remiss
- slack
- slipshod
- sloppy
- superficial
- temerarious
- thoughtless
- unapprehensive
- uncalculating
- uncircumspect
- unconcerned
- unguarded
- unmindful
- unobservant
- unthinking
- unwary”
- wasteful
- Associated Concepts: careless and imprudent manner
- careless and negligent manner
- grossly careless
- negligence
- recklessly careless
- standard of care
- wantonly careless
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Fraud, Indifference, Indifferent, Reckless.
See Also
Negligence.
Careless and inconsiderate cycling in Law Enforcement
Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of careless and inconsiderate cycling.
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Careless and inconsiderate driving in Law Enforcement
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