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adjective

without anxiety or worry.

requiring little care: carefree fabrics.

Origin:
1785–95; care + free

Related forms

care·free·ness, noun

Synonyms
1. lighthearted, joyous, elated, cheerful, gleeful, blithe.

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Example Sentences

With school out for the summer, teen-agers nationwide can look forward to two months of freedom and carefree summer nights.

How quickly the mood has swung in financial markets, from carefree bullishness to deep pessimism.

Looks great, however, and will provide a carefree travel piece.

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With school out for the summer, teen-agers nationwide can look forward to two months of freedom and carefree summer nights.

How quickly the mood has swung in financial markets, from carefree bullishness to deep pessimism.

Looks great, however, and will provide a carefree travel piece.

Yet, for all his carefree ways, he almost always retained a sense of obligation as a hero.

Nasturtiums are carefree creepers with a range of flower colors.

Nintendo promises that the game gets significantly more difficult, requiring more precise aim, after the first carefree worlds.

John's played carefree basketball yesterday and comfortably dispatched an overmatched opponent.

The elite can no longer enjoy the summer in the same carefree spirit as their parents did.

He thinks his carefree nature will allow him to adapt to the situation.

Most folk tales have them as two young women enjoying the carefree life.

Tough, carefree shrubs may not be bothered by such intrusion, but less rugged individuals may be weakened.

New designs and lightweight materials can make two-man tent camping more comfy and carefree.

Even so, investment banks are less carefree with their money than they were.

Candy forces us to let go, lose control for a moment, and become that carefree kid again.

Most users continue to google with carefree abandon.

Her elegance, smile, and carefree joie de vivre will be lovingly.

Rambling over the ground or spilling from containers, nasturtiums are carefree creepers with a range of flower colors.

In their favored dry-summer climate, they are carefree shrubs.

The program consisted of three carefree pieces and the company.

Tisdale had become the gold standard of style for preadolescent girls with her carefree chic and choppy blond tresses.

Maybe it's the idea of falling back into an earlier time, one of ocean liners and memories of carefree journeys.

He said his son used to be a carefree young boy and was now angry and depressed.

College lockdown now will soon earn you a lot more carefree moments than you've seen in a long time.

Azzaro's latest diffusion line, is designed with comfort and a more carefree agenda in mind.

Although more carefree in appearance than in-the-museum exhibitions, it is a juried show with museum standards applied.

Another hardy, carefree type, perfect for the fall garden.

Take this one, a carefree history of our long love.

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World English Dictionary

carefree (ˈkɛəˌfriː)

—*adj*
	without worry or responsibility

'carefreeness

—n

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Word Origin & History

carefree

"free from cares," 1795, from care (n.) + free.

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