What are the opposite words for careless?
Careless is a word that describes someone who is not cautious, attentive or careful with their actions. This trait can lead to accidents or mistakes in various aspects of their lives. The antonyms of careless, on the other hand, describe individuals who exhibit mindfulness and careful consideration. Diligent, attentive, thorough, deliberate, meticulous, and cautious are some common antonyms for the term careless. Individuals who embody these traits tend to be more responsible and considerate in their actions. It is essential to be mindful and attentive to avoid causing unintentional harm to oneself or others.
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- careless
- attentive
- precise
- perfect
- sound
- sagacious
- cautious
- vigilant
- proper
- economical
- deliberate
- disbelieving
- discriminating
- discreet
- methodical
- alert
- all-encompassing
- canny
- careful
- chary
- conscious
- dead-on
- demanding
- exact
- exacting
- explicit
- gingerly
- graceful
- guarded
- leery
- levelheaded
- mindful
- minute
- noncommittal
- observant
- painstaking
- perceptive
- protective
- prudent
- rational
- religious
- rigorous
- selective
- shy
- thoughtful
- wise
- accurate
- conscientious
- detailed
- diligent
- distrustful
- exquisite
- factual
- faithful
- frugal
- fussy
- intentional
- judicious
- neat
- organized
- provident
- reluctant
- sparing
- specific
- suspicious
- thorough
- wary
- watchful
- all
- attentive, lively
- concentrating
- considerate
- clever, artful
- cautious; painstaking
- without sufficient attention
- careful, guarded
- careful, cautious
- cautious, discreet
- accurate, precise
- thorough, careful
- meticulous
- punctilious
- alert, awake
- respectful of others
- exactly correct
- itemized, particularized
- persevering, hard-working
- cautious, sensible
- conservative with resources; careful
- beautiful, excellent, finely detailed
- real, correct
- meticulous, particular
- wise, thoughtful
- detailed, perfectionist
- attentive, aware
- exact, precise
- arranged well, uncluttered
- unwilling to decide
- unduly protective
- meticulous, thorough
- alert, sensitive
- exact, accurate
- conventional, correct
- guarding, securing
- wise, sensible in action and thought
- careful, finicky
- realistic; of sound mind
- concerning belief in divinity
- unenthusiastic, unwilling
- severe; exact
- smart, judicious
- extremely careful
- quiet and self-conscious
- logical, reasonable
- careful, economical
- particular, distinguishing
- accurate, absolute
- thoughtful, careful
- caring, mindful
- careful, watchful
- on the lookout
- intelligent, reasonable
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
- careless
- attentive
- precise
- perfect
- sound
- sagacious
-
cautious
- forethoughtful,
- pussyfoot,
- SAFER,
- safest,
- shrewdest,
- fore thoughtful,
- fore-thoughtful,
- hedging bets,
- hedging one bets,
- hedging one's bets,
- hedging ones bets,
- keeping on one toes,
- keeping on one's toes,
- keeping on ones toes,
- keeping on toes,
- keeping one toes,
- keeping one's toes,
- keeping ones toes,
- keeping toes,
- more forethoughtful,
- more pussyfoot,
- most forethoughtful,
- most pussyfoot,
- playing cool,
- playing it cool,
- taking easy,
- taking it easy,
- taking it slow,
- taking slow,
- thinking twice,
- walking eggs,
- walking on eggs,
- watching one step,
- watching one's step,
- watching ones step,
- watching out,
- watching step,
- with one eyes peeled,
- with one's eyes peeled,
- with ones eyes peeled.
- vigilant
- proper
-
economical
- curmudgeonly,
- dirt cheap,
- frugal,
- meager,
- niggardly,
- penny-wise,
- prudential,
- timesaving,
- cut rate,
- marked down,
- on sale,
- time-saving,
- pennywise,
- bought for a song,
- bought for song,
- cost effective,
- cost next nothing,
- cost next to nothing,
- cost nothing,
- costeffective,
- dime dozen,
- unwasteful,
- dog cheap,
- low priced,
- low tariff,
- lowpriced,
- money saving,
- money-saving,
- moneysaving,
- more curmudgeonly,
- more efficient,
- more money saving,
- more money-saving,
- more moneysaving,
- more niggardly,
- more penny wise,
- more penny-wise,
- more pennywise,
- more prudential,
- more scrimping,
- more skimping,
- more time saving,
- more time-saving,
- more timesaving,
- more unwasteful,
- more work saving,
- more work-saving,
- more worksaving,
- most curmudgeonly,
- most efficient,
- most money saving,
- most money-saving,
- most moneysaving,
- most niggardly,
- most penny wise,
- most penny-wise,
- most pennywise,
- most prudential,
- most scrimping,
- most skimping,
- most time saving,
- most time-saving,
- most timesaving,
- most unwasteful,
- most work saving,
- most work-saving,
- most worksaving,
- on rims,
- on the rims,
- penny pinching,
- penny wise,
- pennypinching,
- quite a buy,
- quite buy,
- stealest,
- time saving,
- un wasteful,
- un-wasteful,
- work saving,
- work-saving,
- worksaving.
-
deliberate
- aforethought,
- prearranged,
- purposive,
- Designful,
- Predeterminate,
- Prepense,
- coldblooded,
- cold blooded,
- cut and dried,
- de liberate,
- de signed,
- de-liberate,
- de-signed,
- done on purpose,
- done purpose,
- ex press,
- ex-press,
- in tended,
- in-tended,
- more aforethought,
- more designed,
- more designful,
- more judged,
- more predesigned,
- more predeterminate,
- more projected,
- more purposed,
- more resolved,
- more schemed,
- more weighed,
- most designed,
- most designful,
- most judged,
- most pondered,
- most predeterminate,
- most prepense,
- most purposive,
- most reasoned,
- most resolved,
- most schemed,
- most weighed,
- pre designed,
- pre determinate,
- pre determined,
- pre meditated,
- pre-arranged,
- pre-designed,
- pre-determinate,
- pre-determined,
- pre-meditated,
- predesigned,
- re-solved,
- thought out,
- with forethought.
- disbelieving
- discriminating
- discreet
-
methodical
- all together,
- disciplined,
- grooved,
- structured,
- meth odic,
- meth-odic,
- more disciplined,
- more grooved,
- more methodized,
- more well-regulated,
- more wellregulated,
- most disciplined,
- most grooved,
- most methodized,
- most structured,
- most well regulated,
- most well-regulated,
- most wellregulated,
- well regulated,
- well-regulated,
- wellregulated.
- alert
- all-encompassing
- canny
- careful
- chary
-
conscious
- in on,
- percipient,
- wise to,
- witting,
- supraliminal,
- alive to,
- sensitive to,
- able recognize,
- able to recognize,
- hep to,
- in right mind,
- more apperceptive,
- more apprised,
- more felt,
- more percipient,
- more remarking,
- more supraliminal,
- more witting,
- most apperceptive,
- most apprised,
- most felt,
- most percipient,
- most recognizing,
- most remarking,
- most supraliminal,
- most witting,
- re cognizing,
- re marking,
- re-cognizing,
- re-marking,
- supra liminal,
- supra-liminal,
- under standing,
- under-standing.
-
dead-on
- dead center,
- to the point,
- absolutely right,
- by book,
- by the book,
- dead on,
- dead-center,
- deadcenter,
- deadon,
- more dead center,
- more dead-center,
- more deadcenter,
- more pinpoint,
- most dead center,
- most dead-center,
- most deadcenter,
- most pinpoint,
- on mark,
- on the mark,
- the point,
- to point,
- very accurate.
- demanding
- exact
- exacting
- explicit
- gingerly
- graceful
- guarded
- leery
- levelheaded
- mindful
- minute
-
noncommittal
- unrevealing,
- Middle-ground,
- non-committal,
- buttoned up,
- clammed up,
- hush hush,
- hushhush,
- in communicable,
- in definite,
- in-communicable,
- in-definite,
- middleground,
- more even steven,
- more even-steven,
- more middle ground,
- more middle-ground,
- more on the fence,
- more on-the-fence,
- more temporizing,
- more unrevealing,
- more zipped,
- most even-steven,
- most evensteven,
- most middle ground,
- most middle-ground,
- most middleground,
- most on the fence,
- most on-the-fence,
- most temporizing,
- most unrevealing,
- most zipped,
- non committal,
- on-the-fence,
- un-revealing.
-
observant
- advertent,
- observant,
- sharp-eyed,
- Intentive,
- dis covering,
- dis-covering,
- eagle eyed,
- eagleeyed,
- more advertent,
- more comprehending,
- more contemplating,
- more deducing,
- more detecting,
- more discovering,
- more intentive,
- more questioning,
- more sharp eyed,
- more sharp-eyed,
- more sharpeyed,
- more surveying,
- most advertent,
- most comprehending,
- most contemplating,
- most deducing,
- most detecting,
- most discovering,
- most intentive,
- most questioning,
- most sharp eyed,
- most sharp-eyed,
- most surveying,
- not missing a trick,
- not missing trick,
- sharpeyed.
- painstaking
- perceptive
- protective
- prudent
- rational
-
religious
- born-again,
- churchgoing,
- deistic,
- doctrinal,
- theistic,
- bornagain,
- god fearing,
- godfearing,
- more born again,
- more born-again,
- more bornagain,
- more deistic,
- more saintlike,
- more scriptural,
- more theistic,
- most born again,
- most bornagain,
- most churchgoing,
- most deistic,
- most doctrinal,
- most saintlike,
- most scriptural,
- most theistic,
- priestlier,
- priestliest,
- super natural,
- super-natural.
- rigorous
- selective
-
shy
- unassertive,
- unassured,
- unsocial,
- de mure,
- de-mure,
- more unassertive,
- more uneffusive,
- more unsocial,
- most introvert,
- most unassured,
- most unsocial,
- re tiring,
- re-tiring,
- self effacing,
- selfeffacing,
- un assertive,
- un assured,
- un effusive,
- un responsive,
- un social,
- un willing,
- un-assertive,
- un-assured,
- un-effusive,
- un-responsive,
- un-social,
- un-willing,
- uneffusive.
- thoughtful
- wise
-
accurate
- explicit,
- faithful,
- on the button,
- severe,
- unerring,
- veracious,
- matter of fact,
- Unrefuted,
- ultraprecise,
- matter-of-fact,
- de fined,
- de finite,
- de-fined,
- de-finite,
- dis criminating,
- dis criminative,
- dis-criminating,
- dis-criminative,
- in-fallible,
- more concrete,
- more defined,
- more ultraprecise,
- more unrefuted,
- most defined,
- most ultraprecise,
- most unrefuted,
- on button,
- on money,
- on the money,
- re gular,
- re-gular,
- ultra precise,
- ultra-precise,
- un deniable,
- un disputed,
- un erring,
- un impeachable,
- un mistakable,
- un refuted,
- un-deniable,
- un-disputed,
- un-erring,
- un-impeachable,
- un-mistakable,
- un-questionable,
- un-refuted.
-
conscientious
- conscionable,
- high-principled,
- hanging in,
- heart and soul in to,
- heart and soul into,
- heart soul in to,
- heart soul into,
- high minded,
- highminded,
- highprincipled,
- in corruptible,
- in-corruptible,
- minding p and q,
- minding p q,
- minding p's and q's,
- minding p's q's,
- minding ps and qs,
- minding ps qs,
- more conscionable,
- more diligent,
- more high principled,
- more high-principled,
- most conscionable,
- most high-principled,
- most highprincipled,
- re liable,
- re liabler,
- re liablest,
- re-liable,
- re-liabler,
- re-liablest.
-
detailed
- at length,
- seriatim,
- Circumstantiated,
- Clocklike,
- point by point,
- all inclusive,
- allinclusive,
- blow by blow,
- co pious,
- co-pious,
- de scribed,
- de tailed,
- de-scribed,
- de-tailed,
- dis closed,
- dis-closed,
- in dividual,
- in-dividual,
- more circumstantiated,
- more described,
- more disclosed,
- more elaborated,
- more enumerated,
- more individualized,
- more seriatim,
- more unfolded,
- most amplified,
- most circumstantiated,
- most described,
- most disclosed,
- most elaborated,
- most enumerated,
- most point by point,
- most point-by-point,
- most seriatim,
- most unfolded,
- un folded,
- un-folded.
- diligent
- distrustful
- exquisite
-
factual
- sure-enough,
- true-to-life,
- card-carrying,
- card carrying,
- cardcarrying,
- more card carrying,
- more card-carrying,
- more cardcarrying,
- more sure enough,
- more true to life,
- more true-to-life,
- most card carrying,
- most card-carrying,
- most cardcarrying,
- most sure enough,
- most sure-enough,
- most true to life,
- most true-to-life,
- on level,
- straight from horse mouth,
- straight from horse's mouth,
- straight from horses mouth,
- sure enough,
- sureenough,
- true to life,
- un adorned,
- un biased,
- un doubted,
- un-adorned,
- un-doubted.
-
faithful
- undistorted,
- hard core,
- behind one,
- de voted,
- de-voted,
- dyed in the wool,
- more attached,
- more confiding,
- more undistorted,
- most attached,
- most confiding,
- most undistorted,
- re solute,
- re-solute,
- string along with,
- tried true,
- trueblue,
- un changing,
- un distorted,
- un swerving,
- un wavering,
- un-changing,
- un-distorted,
- un-swerving,
- un-wavering.
- frugal
-
fussy
- Stickling,
- fuddy duddy,
- hard to please,
- more fuddy duddy,
- more fuddy-duddy,
- more fuddyduddy,
- more overfastidious,
- more picky picky,
- more picky-picky,
- more pickypicky,
- more stickling,
- most fuddy duddy,
- most fuddyduddy,
- most overfastidious,
- most picky picky,
- most picky-picky,
- most stickling,
- over fastidious,
- over-fastidious,
- overfastidious,
- picky-picky,
- pickypicky.
- intentional
-
judicious
- clear-sighted,
- clearsighted,
- clear sighted,
- far sighted,
- more clear-sighted,
- more clearsighted,
- more well judged,
- more well-judged,
- more welljudged,
- most clear sighted,
- most clear-sighted,
- most clearsighted,
- most well judged,
- most well-judged,
- most welljudged,
- pro found,
- pro founder,
- pro-found,
- pro-founder,
- well advised,
- well judged,
- welladvised,
- welljudged.
- neat
- organized
- provident
- reluctant
-
sparing
- Stewardly,
- tight-fisted,
- Ungiving,
- cost conscious,
- cost-conscious,
- costconscious,
- money conscious,
- money-conscious,
- moneyconscious,
- more cost conscious,
- more cost-conscious,
- more costconscious,
- more money conscious,
- more money-conscious,
- more moneyconscious,
- more stewardly,
- more tight fisted,
- more tight-fisted,
- more ungiving,
- most cost conscious,
- most cost-conscious,
- most costconscious,
- most money conscious,
- most money-conscious,
- most moneyconscious,
- most stewardly,
- most tight fisted,
- most tight-fisted,
- tight fisted,
- un-giving.
- specific
- suspicious
- thorough
- wary
- watchful
- all
- attentive, lively
- concentrating
- considerate
- clever, artful
- cautious; painstaking
- without sufficient attention
- careful, guarded
- careful, cautious
- cautious, discreet
- accurate, precise
- thorough, careful
- meticulous
- punctilious
- alert, awake
- respectful of others
- exactly correct
- itemized, particularized
- persevering, hard-working
- cautious, sensible
- conservative with resources; careful
- beautiful, excellent, finely detailed
- real, correct
- meticulous, particular
- wise, thoughtful
- detailed, perfectionist
- attentive, aware
- exact, precise
-
arranged well, uncluttered
- neat.
- unwilling to decide
- unduly protective
- meticulous, thorough
- alert, sensitive
- exact, accurate
- conventional, correct
- guarding, securing
- wise, sensible in action and thought
- careful, finicky
- realistic; of sound mind
- concerning belief in divinity
- unenthusiastic, unwilling
- severe; exact
- smart, judicious
- extremely careful
-
quiet and self-conscious
- shy.
- logical, reasonable
- careful, economical
- particular, distinguishing
- accurate, absolute
- thoughtful, careful
- caring, mindful
- careful, watchful
- on the lookout
-
intelligent, reasonable
- wise.
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
putting gear
- Antonyms:
- close, disenchant, disgust.
