| Main Entry: | inadvertent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accidental |
Synonyms: |
careless, chance, feckless, heedless, irreflective, negligent, not on purpose, reckless, thoughtless, uncaring, unconcerned, undesigned, undevised, unheeding, unintended, unintentional, unmindful, unplanned, unpremeditated, unthinking, unthought, unwitting |
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advertent, attentive, deliberate, intentional, planned |
| Main Entry: | accidental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happening unexpectedly |
Synonyms: |
adventitious, casual, chance, coincidental, contingent, fluky, fortuitous, inadvertent, incidental, random, uncalculated, unexpected, unforeseen, unintended, unintentional, unplanned |
| Notes: | accidental stresses chance; fortuitous so strongly suggests chance that it often connotes absence of cause |
Antonyms: |
decided, designed, essential, intended, intentional, planned, premeditated |
| Main Entry: | careless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without sufficient attention |
Synonyms: |
absent-minded, abstracted, casual, cursory, disregardful, forgetful, hasty, heedless, improvident, imprudent, inaccurate, inadvertent, incautious, inconsiderate, indifferent, indiscreet, indolent, injudicious, irresponsible, lackadaisical, lax, loose, mindless, napping, negligent, nonchalant, oblivious, offhand, perfunctory, pococurante, reckless, regardless, remiss, slipshod, sloppy, thoughtless, uncircumspect, unconcerned, unguarded, unheeding, unmindful, unobservant, unreflective, unthinking, wasteful |
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accurate, attentive, careful, cautious, concerned, mindful, painstaking, prudent, ready, thoughtful |
| Main Entry: | chance |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accidental, unforeseeable |
Synonyms: |
adventitious, at random, casual, contingent, fluky, fortuitous, fortunate, happy, inadvertent, incidental, lucky, odd, offhand, unforeseen, unintentional, unlooked for, unplanned |
Antonyms: |
designed, foreseeable, planned, understood |
| Main Entry: | heedless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careless |
Synonyms: |
asleep at the switch, daydreaming, disregardful, fast and loose, feckless, foolhardy, goofing off, impetuous, imprudent, inadvertent, inattentive, incautious, inconsiderate, irreflective, neglectful, negligent, oblivious, out to lunch, precipitate, rash, reckless, slapdash, sloppy, thoughtless, uncaring, unmindful, unobservant, unthinking, unwary |
Antonyms: |
attentive, careful, caring, cautious, concerned, heedful, observant, thoughtful |
| Main Entry: | inattentive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | negligent, not paying attention |
Synonyms: |
absent, absentminded, apathetic, blind, bored, careless, distracted, distrait, distraught, diverted, dreamy, faraway, heedless, inadvertent, indifferent, inobservant, listless, lost*, musing, neglectful, oblivious, off-guard, out to lunch, preoccupied, rapt, regardless, remiss, removed, scatterbrained, thoughtless, unconscious, undiscerning, unheeding, unmindful, unnoticing, unobservant, unobserving, unperceiving, unthinking, unwatchful, vague |
Antonyms: |
attentive, heedful, looking, noticing, observant |
| Main Entry: | negligent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careless, indifferent |
Synonyms: |
asleep at switch, behindhand, cursory, delinquent, derelict, discinct, disregardful, forgetful, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, incurious, lax, neglectful, nonchalant, offhand, regardless, remiss, slack, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy*, slovenly, thoughtless, unconcerned, unheedful, unmindful, unthinking |
Antonyms: |
attentive, careful, caring, mindful, successful |
| Main Entry: | regardless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indifferent, unconcerned |
Synonyms: |
behindhand, blind, careless, coarse, crude, deaf, delinquent, derelict, disregarding, heedless, inadvertent, inattentive, inconsiderate, insensitive, lax, listless, mindless, neglectful, negligent, nonobservant, rash, reckless, remiss, rude, slack, unfeeling, unheeding, uninterested, unmindful |
Antonyms: |
attentive, concerned, heedful |
| Main Entry: | thoughtless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | absent-minded, unobservant |
Synonyms: |
bovine, careless, confused, doltish, dull, empty-headed, flighty, foolish, heedless, ill-advised, ill-considered, imprudent, inadvertent, inane, inattentive, incomprehensible, inept, injudicious, irrational, irreflective, lamebrained, loony, mindless, neglectful, negligent, obtuse, puerile, rash, reckless, regardless, remiss, senseless, silly, stupid, undiscerning, unheeding, unmindful, unreasonable, unreasoning, unreflective, unthinking, vacuous, witless |
Antonyms: |
attentive, heeding, mindful, observant, thoughtful |
| Main Entry: | unconscious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ignorant; automatic |
Synonyms: |
accidental, gut, inadvertent, inattentive, inherent, innate, instinctive, involuntary, latent, lost, reflex, repressed, subconscious, subliminal, suppressed, unaware, uncalculated, undeliberate, unheeding, unintended, unintentional, unmindful, unpremeditated, unrealized, unwitting |
Antonyms: |
aware, conscious, decided, intended, intentional, knowing |