# could care less

> English word · Verb · IPA /kəd kɛə ˈlɛs/

## Definitions
1. To not care at all; to have no concern or interest; to be apathetic.

## Etymology
An alteration of couldn’t care less (which is first attested slightly earlier), either:
* by deliberate irony, or
* by hyponegation, perhaps influenced by forms such as “as if I could care less”, “no one could care less”, and “to know little (or nothing) and care less”.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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