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1. Given to haughty disregard of others
   - high-handed
    
2. Marked by lack of attention, consideration, forethought or thoroughness; not careful
   "cavalier about her clothes";
   - careless

1. A gallant or courtly gentleman
   - chevalier

1. A royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War
   - Royalist

Derived forms: Cavaliers, cavaliers

See also: carefulness, casual, cursory, domineering, haphazard, heedless, imprudent, inattentive, incautious, negligent, offhand, offhanded, passing, perfunctory, reckless, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy, superficial, unconcerned

Type of: male aristocrat, monarchist, royalist

Encyclopedia: Cavalier, Jean Cavalier Cavalier, North Dakota Cavalier, ND