devil-may-care

Questions about devil-may-care

What does devil-may-care mean?

devil-may-care means "cheerfully irresponsible". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in devil-may-care?

devil-may-care has 4 syllables and divides as de-vil--may--care under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for devil-may-care?

Close synonyms include carefree, freewheeling, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is devil-may-care a common word?

devil-may-care is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.