"Careless" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 大意 | dà yi | careless |   |
| 胡乱 | hú luàn | careless / reckless / casually / absent-mindedly / at will / at random / any old how | |
| 含糊 | hán hu | ambiguous / vague / careless / perfunctory | |
| 马虎 | mǎ hu | careless / sloppy / negligent / skimpy | |
| 粗心 | cū xīn | careless / thoughtless | |
| 草率 | cǎo shuài | careless / negligent / sloppy / not serious | |
| 毛 |  máo | hair / feather / down / wool / mildew / mold / coarse or semifinished / young / raw / careless / unthinking / nervous / scared / (of currency) to devalue or depreciate / classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角[jiao3] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fen1]) | |
| 草 | cǎo | grass / straw / manuscript / draft (of a document) / careless / rough / CL:棵[ke1],撮[zuo3],株[zhu1],根[gen1] | |
| 漫不经心 | màn bù jīng xīn | careless / heedless / absent-minded / indifferent | |
| 轻浮 | qīng fú | frivolous / careless / giddy | |
| 稀里糊涂 | xī li hú tu | muddleheaded / careless | |
| 马马虎虎 | mǎ ma hū hū | careless / casual / vague / not so bad / so-so / tolerable / fair | |
| 粗心大意 | cū xīn dà yì | negligent / careless / inadvertent | |
| 潦草 | liáo cǎo | slipshod / careless / slovenly / (of handwriting) scrawly / illegible | |
| 苟且 | gǒu qiě | perfunctory / careless / drifting along / resigned to one's fate / improper (relations) / illicit (sex) | |
| 粗疏 | cū shū | coarse / rough / careless | |
| 疏懒 | shū lǎn | indolent / careless | |
| 苟 | gǒu | (literary) if indeed / (bound form) careless / negligent / (bound form) temporarily | |
| 怠 | dài | idle / lazy / negligent / careless | |
| 跅 | tuò | careless | |
| 眉毛胡子一把抓 | méi mao hú zi yī bǎ zhuā | careless / any-old-how, regardless of the specific task | |
| 大而化之 | dà ér huà zhī | careless / sloppy | |
| 漫不经意 | màn bù jīng yì | careless / unconcerned | |
| 疏忽大意 | shū hu dà yì | oversight / negligence / careless / negligent / not concentrating on the main point | |
| 忽忽悠悠 | hū hū yōu yōu | indifferent to the passing of time / careless | |
| 疏漏 | shū lòu | to slip up / to overlook by negligence / careless omission / oversight | |
| 纰漏 | pī lòu | careless mistake / slip-up | |
| 马大哈 | mǎ dà hā | a careless person / scatterbrain / frivolous and forgetful / abbr. for 馬馬虎虎、大大咧咧、嘻嘻哈哈|马马虎虎、大大咧咧、嘻嘻哈哈 | |
| 遢 | tà | careless, negligent, slipshod / see 邋遢[la1 ta5] | |
| 翫 | wàn | to play with / careless / legendary archer | |
| 不小心 | bù xiǎo xīn | heedless / careless | |
| 一着不慎，满盘皆输 | yī zhāo bù shèn , mǎn pán jiē shū | One careless move and the whole game is lost. (idiom) | |
| 失错 | shī cuò | to make a careless mistake / mistake / slip-up | |
| 疏率 | shū shuài | careless and rash / heedless | |
| 一不小心 | yī bù xiǎo xīn | to be a little bit careless / to have a moment of inattentiveness / accidentally | |
