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Carefree   /kˈɛrfrˌi/   Listen
Carefree

adjective
1.
Free of trouble and worry and care.  Synonym: unworried.  "Carefree millionaires, untroubled financially"
2.
Cheerfully irresponsible.  Synonyms: devil-may-care, freewheeling, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy.  "Freewheeling urban youths" , "Had a harum-scarum youth"



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"Carefree" Quotes from Famous Books



... ballad she had sung at Christmas—in what different mood! Then her voice had been as carefree as a bird's carol, but now it lent to the limpid simplicity of the air a sobbing, shuddering sweetness—an almost weird intensity ...
— The Bacillus of Beauty - A Romance of To-day • Harriet Stark

... analysis and the whole subject with a laugh that was partly yawn—"away with dull care. Away with dull everything. It's too hot to think or feel. A real emotion is as superfluous and oppressive as a—a 'camel petticoat!" This time her laugh was real and infectiously carefree. "Take off your hat, chicken. I'll go beg a hunk of ice from my dear friend Peter, and make some lemonade as is lemonade; or claret punch, if you aren't a blue ribboner, or white-ribboner, or some other kind of a good-ribboner." Miss Georgie ...
— Good Indian • B. M. Bower

... Fanchon. Fanchon's dance came from the Orient by a roundabout way; pausing in Spain, taking on a Gallic frankness in gallantry at the Bal Bullier in Paris, combining with a relative from the South Seas encountered in San Francisco, flavouring itself with a carefree negroid abandon in New Orleans, and, accumulating, too, something inexpressible from Mexico and South America, it kept, throughout its travels, to the underworld, or to circles where nature is extremely frank and rank, until ...
— Penrod • Booth Tarkington



Words linked to "Carefree" :   irresponsible, untroubled



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