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English
Adjective
couldn't care less (comparative more couldn't care less, superlative most couldn't care less)
- Alternative spelling of couldn't-care-less
Verb
couldn't care less (simple past couldn't have cared less)
- (idiomatic) to not care at all; to have no interest or concern; to be apathetic.
1987, Gary Clark (lyrics and music), “Mary's Prayer”, performed by Danny Wilson:I used to be so careless / As if I couldn't care less
Usage notes
A more recent variant could care less appeared in the United States, but is often deprecated and is uncommon in most other English-speaking regions.
Synonyms
Translations
to lack interest
- Finnish: ei voisi vähempää kiinnostaa, vähät välittää
- Galician: tanto me ten, tanto me dá
- German: auf etwas pfeifen, nicht um etwas / jemanden scheren, einen Dreck kümmern
- Greek: δεν μου καίγεται καρφί (el) (den mou kaígetai karfí)
- Italian: fregarsene (it), non me ne può fregar di meno, fottersene, infischiarsene, sbattersene
- Ladino: koza ke no me inche
- Polish: mieć gdzieś (pl)
- Spanish: traer sin cuidado, traer al fresco, traer al pairo, pasar olímpicamente (colloquial)
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