Purposive Antonyms

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careless

absent-minded
abstracted
casual
cursory
disregardful
forgetful
hasty
heedless
improvident
imprudent

chance

adventitious
at random
casual
contingent
fluky
fortuitous
fortunate
happy
inadvertent
incidental

heedless

asleep at the switch
daydreaming
disregardful
fast and loose
feckless
foolhardy
goofing off
impetuous
imprudent
inadvertent

ignorant

apprenticed
benighted
birdbrained
blind to
cretinous
dense
green
illiterate
imbecilic
in the dark

imprudent

brash
careless
foolhardy
foolish
heedless
ill-advised
ill-considered
ill-judged
impolitic
improvident

inattentive

absent
absentminded
apathetic
blind
bored
careless
distracted
distrait
distraught
diverted

incautious

any old way
bold
brash
careless
caught napping
devil-may-care
fast-and-loose
foot-in-mouth
hasty
heedless

indefinite

broad
confused
doubtful
dubious
equivocal
evasive
general
ill-defined
imprecise
indeterminable

indeterminate

borderless
general
imprecise
inconclusive
indefinite
indistinct
inexact
undefined
undetermined
unfixed

thoughtless

antisocial
apathetic
asocial
blind
boorish
brash
deaf
discourteous
egocentric
hasty

uncareful

aimless
carefree
careless
feeble
fustian
futile
good-for-nothing
hopeless
incautious
incompetent

unintentional

accidental
aimless
casual
chance
erratic
extemporaneous
fortuitous
haphazard
inadvertent
involuntary

unmethodical

aimless
chance
chaotic
deviating
erratic
haphazard
orderless
rambling
unstable
unsystematic

unmindful

abstracted
careless
forgetful
heedless
inadvertent
inattentive
neglectful
negligent
oblivious
remiss

unplanned

accidental
adventitious
aleatory
fortuitous
haphazard
impromptu
random
spontaneous
undesigned
unexpected

unsystematic

all over the place
chaotic
cluttered
confused
dislocated
disorganized
heterogeneous
indiscriminate
irregular
jumbled

unwitting

accidental
aimless
chance
comatose
forgetful
haphazard
ignorant
inadvertent
incognizant
inconversant

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