care
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r-der.
Proto-Germanic *karō
Proto-West Germanic *karu
Old English caru
Middle English care
English care
From Middle English care, from Old English caru, ċearu (“care, concern, anxiety, sorrow, grief, trouble”), from Proto-West Germanic *karu, from Proto-Germanic *karō (“care, sorrow, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r- (“shout, call”). Cognate with Old Saxon cara, kara (“concern, action”), Middle High German kar (“sorrow, lamentation”), Icelandic kör (“sickbed”), Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌰 (kara, “concern, care”). Related also to Dutch karig (“scanty”), German karg (“sparse, meagre, barren”), Latin garriō, Ancient Greek γῆρυς (gêrus). See also chary.
Inflected forms:
form: cares
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cares
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: caring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cared
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: care
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: care
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: cared
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: care
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: carest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: cared
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: caredst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: cares
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: careth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: cared
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: care
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: cared
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: care
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: cared
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: care
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: caring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: Close attention; concern; responsibility.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Care should be taken when holding babies.
I thank thee for thy care and honest pains.
‘Have a care, Buquet—ghosts like not to be seen or talked about!’
gloss: Worry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I don’t have a care in the world.
Yes, heaven, I’m in heaven / And the cares that hung around me through the week / Seem to vanish like a gambler’s lucky streak
gloss: Maintenance, upkeep.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: dental care
Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
gloss: The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
gloss: The state of being cared for by others.
pos: noun
tags: UK
uncountable
examples: in care
gloss: The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Right sorrowfully mourning her bereaved cares.
gloss: Grief, sorrow.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: More health and happiness betide my liege / Than can my care-tuned tongue deliver him!
Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.
One day, among the days, he bethought him of this and fell lamenting for that the most part of his existence was past and he had not been vouchsafed a son, to inherit the kingdom after him, even as he had inherited it from his fathers and forebears; by reason whereof there betided him sore cark and care and chagrin exceeding.
gloss: To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: She doesn’t care what you think.
I don’t care, I’m still going.
[…] What cares these roarers [i.e. thunder] for the name of king?[…]
And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.
This newfound infatuation renders Bart uncharacteristically vulnerable. He suddenly has something to care about beyond causing trouble and makes a dramatic transformation from hell-raiser to gentleman about town.
No longer mind if I go / You pray enough, I might fall / Down, down, down, down, down / Why should I care what happens to me? / Why should I care what happens to me?
gloss: To want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards or interested in.
pos: verb
tags: formal
intransitive
polite
examples: Would you care for another slice of cake?
Would you care to dance?
I don’t care to hear your opinion.
gloss: To be affected by, to treat as relevant for a subsequent course of action.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
informal
intransitive
examples: An event aggregator facilitates a fire-and-forget model of communication. The object triggering the event doesn’t care if there are any subscribers. It just fires the event and moves on.
gloss: (with for) To look after or look out for.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Young children can learn to care for a pet.
He cared for his mother while she was sick.
gloss: To mind; to object.
pos: verb
tags: Appalachia
intransitive
examples: After introducing herself, the therapist then asked the patient if it would be all right to do the exercises which the doctor had ordered for her. The patient would response, "Well, I don't care to." For several days, the therapist immediately left the room and officially recorded that the patient had "refused" therapy. […] It was not until months later that this therapist […] discovered that she should have been interpreting "I don't care to" as "I don't mind" doing those exercises now.
Synonyms: becare
bother
care
concern oneself
heed
mind
reck
trouble oneself
worry
Antonyms: let slide
neglect
Related words: carcake
chary
couldn't care less
I don't care
who cares
zero fucks given
Derived words: aftercare
aged care
allocare
ambulatory care
babycare
baby-care
backcare
birdcare
bodycare
care a hoot
care and attention
care and feeding
carebear
care bear
care-experienced
care factor
care factor zero
carefree
carefront
carefrontation
careful
caregiver
care-giver
caregiving
care home
carehouse
care in the community
care killed a cat
care killed the cat
careleaver
careless
careline
caremonger
caremongering
care of
care package
careseeker
careseeking
caresome
Care Sunday
caretake
caretaker
caretaking
care-taking
careware
carework
careworker
careworn
care-worn
childcare
clothescare
corridor care
crit care
critical care
customer care
day care
daycare
day care center
deathcare
dentalcare
dental care
duty of care
eldercare
elderly care
eyecare
facecare
floorcare
footcare
forecare
foster care
haircare
hair care
handcare
have a care
healthcare
health care
heartcare
heck-care
Hillary-care
homecare
home care
housecare
infantcare
intensive care
judicare
kangaroo care
kangaroo mother care
landcare
lawncare
lifecare
life-care
managed care
Medicare
memory care
miscare
mouthcare
nailcare
not have a care in the world
Obama-care
oralcare
overcare
pal care
palliative care
pastoral care
patientcare
petcare
point of care
postcare
precare
primary care
quaternary care
respite care
sandwich care
secondary care
self-care
shoecare
skincare
skip-care
standard of care
suncare
take care of
telecare
tender loving care
tertiary care
throughcare
TLC
toothcare
traincare
transmural care
Trump-care
urgent care
woodcare
woundcare
wraparound care
becare
care a button
care a fig
care a jackstraw
care a monkey's
care a pin
care a rat's arse
care a rat's ass
care a whit
care for
carer
could care fewer
could care less
could not care less
couldn't-care-less
couldn't care less
devil-may-care
facts don't care about your feelings
hell if I care
I don't care
long hair don't care
if I care
sharing is caring
uncare
what do I care
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