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, “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 deprecated by many prescriptivists and is uncommon in most other English-speaking regions.
Synonyms
Translations
to lack interest
- Dutch: niet boeien
- Finnish: ei voisi vähempää kiinnostaa, vähät välittää
- French: n'en avoir rien à foutre (fr)
- 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)
- Hungarian: nem törődik
- Icelandic: skeyta ekkert um
- Irish: is cuma liom sa sioc
- Italian: fregarsene (it), non me ne può fregar di meno, fottersene, infischiarsene, sbattersene
- Ladino: koza ke no me inche
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: blåse i (noe) (literally “blow in (something)”)
- Polish: mieć gdzieś (pl) impf
- Spanish: traer sin cuidado, traer al fresco, traer al pairo, pasar olímpicamente (colloquial)
- Swedish: strunta i (något), skita i (något) (literally “shit in (something)”)
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