Cavalier

Quick meaning: Cavalier is an adjective meaning Lacking the proper care or concern for something important, reckless, rash, high-handed.

Meaning

Lacking the proper care or concern for something important, reckless, rash, high-handed.

More Meanings

1. High-spirited.
2. Supercilious.
3. A gentleman of the class of such officers, particularly:
4. (obsolete) Free and easy; unconcerned with formalities
5. (historical) Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I of England (1600–1649).
6. (historical) A military man serving on horse, (chiefly) early modern cavalry officers who had abandoned the heavy armor of medieval knights.
7. (historical) A gallant: a sprightly young dashing military man.

Example Sentences

The roundheads in the school showers easily equalled the cavaliers.

But, on the following day, no sign of Poirot. I was getting angry. He was really treating us in the most cavalier fashion.

His social and kind nature is inferred from his cavaliering the ladies Percy and Mortimer, and introducing them, before their husbands depart for the war.

Such a cavalier attitude might seem to suggest that doctors consider the uterus as dispensable an organ as, say, an appendix—and some feminists have accused the medical profession of just such callousness […]

Word Forms

• cavaliers
• cavaliering
• cavaliered

Synonyms for cavalier

Depending on context, synonyms include dismissive, offhand, nonchalant, haughty, disdainful, curt.

Antonyms for cavalier

Common opposites include respectful, earnest, attentive, stiff, roundhead.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include high-handed, domineering, chevalier, negligent, offhand, ruthless.

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