"could not care less" meaning in English

See could not care less in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: could not have cared less [past]
Head templates: {{head|en|verb|simple past|could not have cared less}} could not care less (simple past could not have cared less)
  1. Alternative form of couldn't care less Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: couldn't care less

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for could not care less meaning in English (1.3kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "could not have cared less",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb",
        "3": "simple past",
        "4": "could not have cared less"
      },
      "expansion": "could not care less (simple past could not have cared less)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "couldn't care less"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English negative polarity items",
          "parents": [
            "Negative polarity items",
            "Terms by semantic function"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of couldn't care less"
      ],
      "id": "en-could_not_care_less-en-verb-Uwb5V1Ub",
      "links": [
        [
          "couldn't care less",
          "couldn't care less#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "could not care less"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "could not have cared less",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb",
        "3": "simple past",
        "4": "could not have cared less"
      },
      "expansion": "could not care less (simple past could not have cared less)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "couldn't care less"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English negative polarity items",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of couldn't care less"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "couldn't care less",
          "couldn't care less#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "could not care less"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.