Antonyms for cared

Grammar : Verb

Spell : kair

Phonetic Transcription : kɛər

Definition of cared

Origin : Old English carian, cearian "be anxious, grieve; to feel concern or interest," from Proto-Germanic *karojanan (cf. Old High German charon "to lament," Old Saxon karon "to care, to sorrow"), from the same source as care (n.). OED emphasizes that it is in "no way related to L. cura." Related: Cared; caring.
To not care as a negative dismissal is attested from mid-13c. Phrase couldn't care less is from 1946; could care less in the same sense (with an understood negative) is from 1966. Care also figures in many "similies of indifference" in the form don't care a _____, with the blank filled by fig, pin, button, cent, straw, rush, point, farthing, snap, etc., etc.
Positive senses, e.g. "have an inclination" (1550s); "have fondness for" (1520s) seem to have developed later as mirrors to the earlier negative ones.

verb tend to
verb regard highly

Example sentences :

To have married a girl who cared only for his money; that would have been dire enough.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

He would not have cared half so much for any insult to himself.
Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger

He cared as little for the money as Uncle Peter did, large sum though it was.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

She cared little for poverty or riches, as long as she had regained her chief treasures.
Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger

This satisfied him, for he cared nothing for the attachment of those under his command.
Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger

Now, Perronel might do what she would with him—he cared not.
Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge

The misfortune was that this was the only thing they cared to possess.
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

They had cared for him in his cradle; he followed them to their graves.
Extract from : « 'Tis Sixty Years Since » by Charles Francis Adams

Otherwise, he would not have cared to go on destroying life for no useful end.
Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger

She hardly looked up or spoke; but for me, I cared for nothing since she was with me.
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Synonyms for cared

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