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| Main Entry: | insouciant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easygoing, casual |
| Synonyms: | airy, breezy, buoyant, carefree, careless, free and easy, gay, happy-go-lucky*, heedless, jaunty, lighthearted, nonchalant, sunny*, thoughtless, unconcerned, untroubled, unworried |
| Antonyms: | anxious, high-strung, nervous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | carefree |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lighthearted, untroubled |
| Synonyms: | airy, blithe, breezy, buoyant, calm, careless, cheerful, cheery, cool, easy, happy, happy-go-lucky, insouciant, jaunty, jovial, radiant, secure, sunny, at ease, easy-going, feelgood, laid back, unanxious, unbothered |
| Notes: | carefree means free of trouble and worry and care while careless means marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful |
| Antonyms: | anxious, heavyhearted, troubled, worried |
| Main Entry: | easygoing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | complacent, permissive |
| Synonyms: | amenable, breezy, calm, carefree, casual, collected, complaisant, composed, devil-may-care*, even-tempered*, flexible, free and easy, happy-go-lucky*, indolent, indulgent, informal, insouciant, laid-back*, lazy, lenient, liberal, mild, moderate, nonchalant, offhand, patient, placid, self-possessed, serene, tolerant, tranquil, unconcerned, uncritical, unhurried, uninhibited, hang-loose, low-pressure, outgiving, poised, relaxed, undemanding |
| Antonyms: | agitated, critical, demanding, hurried, intolerant, nervous, strict, upset, worried, hyped |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | happy-go-lucky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | blithely unconcerned |
| Synonyms: | blithe, carefree, casual, cheerful, content, cool, devil-may-care*, easy, easygoing, feckless, free and easy, heedless, improvident, insouciant, irresponsible, lackadaisical*, lighthearted, nonchalant, reckless, unconcerned, untroubled, carefree and untroubled, free-minded, living the life of Riley, without care |
| Antonyms: | disconsolate, discontented, dissatisfied, distressed, troubled, upset, worried |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lighthearted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | carefree, untroubled |
| Synonyms: | blithe, bright, buoyant, cheerful, effervescent, expansive, frolicsome, gay, glad, gleeful, happy, happy-go-lucky*, high-spirited, insouciant, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, laid-back, lively, merry, playful, resilient, spirited, sprightly, sunny, upbeat, vivacious, volatile, blithesome, feelgood, lightsome |
| Antonyms: | depressed, troubled, upset, worried, heavy-hearted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | listless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spiritless, without energy |
| Synonyms: | absent, abstracted, apathetic, blah*, bored, careless, dormant, dreamy, drowsy, dull, easygoing, enervated, faint, heavy, heedless, impassive, inanimate, inattentive, indifferent, indolent, inert, insouciant, lackadaisical, laid-back*, languid, languishing, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, limp, lukewarm, neutral, passive, phlegmatic, slack, sleepy, slow, sluggish, stupid, supine, thoughtless, torpid, uninterested, vacant, energyless, lagging, languorous, lymphatic, mopish, out of it |
| Antonyms: | active, alert, attentive, energetic, lively, untired |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nonchalant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easygoing, laid back |
| Synonyms: | airy, aloof, apathetic, blasé, calm, careless, casual, cold, collected, composed, cool, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, easy, effortless, happy, impassive, imperturbable, indifferent, insouciant, lackadaisical, light, listless, loose, lukewarm, mellow, neglectful, negligent, neutral, offhand, placid, serene, smooth, trifling, uncaring, unconcerned, unemotional, unfeeling, unflappable, unperturbed, unruffled, untroubled, disimpassioned, incurious, unexcited, unimpressible |
| Antonyms: | intense, jumpy, nervous, unnerved |
| Main Entry: | unconcerned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | carefree; apathetic |
| Synonyms: | aloof, blind, blithe, callous, careless, cold, cool, deaf, detached, dispassionate, distant, easy, feckless, forgetful, hardened, heedless, impassive, inattentive, indifferent, insensible, insensitive, insouciant, lackadaisical, lukewarm, negligent, neutral, nonchalant, oblivious, phlegmatic, reserved, self-centered, serene, stony, supine, uninterested, unmoved, unperturbed, unruffled, unsympathetic, untroubled, hard-hearted, incurious, relaxed, unbothered, uninvolved, unworried |
| Antonyms: | concerned, curious, interested, caring |
| Main Entry: | gay |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
| Synonyms: | alert, animate, animated, blithe, brash, carefree, cheerful, cheery, chipper*, confident, convivial, devil-may-care*, festive, forward, frivolous, frolicsome, glad, gleeful, hilarious, insouciant, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, keen, lighthearted, lively, merry, mirthful, playful, presuming, pushy, rollicking, self-assertive, sparkling, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, wild, zippy*, blithesome, bouncy, chirpy, fun-loving, gamesome, pleasure-seeking |
| Antonyms: | depressed, discouraged, sad, unhappy, upset, worried |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | casual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nonchalant, relaxed in manner |
| Synonyms: | aloof, apathetic, blasé, breezy, cool*, cursory, detached, easygoing, folksy*, homey*, indifferent, informal, insouciant, lackadaisical, laid-back*, loose*, mellow, offhand, perfunctory, purposeless, remote, unconcerned, uninterested, withdrawn, down home, incurious, low-pressure, pococurante, unfussy |
| Antonyms: | formal, serious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | apathy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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cold, cold, proof, all one to, anesthetic, apathetic, blind to, callous, careless, case, cold as charity, comatose, cool, cool as a cucumber, crustose, dead, dead to, deaf to, dedolent, devil, disinterested, disregarding, dull, easy, frigid, half, hardened, heartless, impartial, impassible, impassive, impenitible, impercipient, imperturbable, impervious, inattentive, indifferent, inert, infrunite, insensate, insensible, insipid, insouciant, insusceptible, inured, lackadaisical, languid, leucophlematic, listless, lukewarm, maudlin, mindless, neglectful, numb, obtuse, pachydermatous, palsied, palsy, passionless, phlegmatic, pococurante, proof against, regardless, senseless, sleepy, sluggish, soulless, spiritless, steeled against, stupefied, stuporific, supine, tame, thick, unaffected, unalluring, unambitious, unanimated, unaspiring, unattracted, unblushing, uncared for, unconcerned, unconscious, undesirable, undesired, undesiring, unexcited, unfeeling, unfelt, unimpressed, unimpressible, unimpressionable, uninspired, unmoved, unruffled, unshocked, unsolicitous, unstirred, unstruck, unsusceptible, untouched, unvalued, unwished, vain, vegetative
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