Word Meanings - RECKLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent. Chaucer. 2. Rashly negligent; utterly careless or heedless. It made the king as reckless as them diligent. Sir P. Sidney. Syn. -- Heedless; careless; mindless; thoughtless; negligent;
Additional info about word: RECKLESS
1. Inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent. Chaucer. 2. Rashly negligent; utterly careless or heedless. It made the king as reckless as them diligent. Sir P. Sidney. Syn. -- Heedless; careless; mindless; thoughtless; negligent; indifferent; regardless; unconcerned; inattentive; remiss; rash. -- Reck"less*ly, adv. -- Reck"less*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RECKLESS)
- Audacious
- Insolent
- adventurous
- venturesome
- presumptuous
- valiant
- rash
- bold
- daring
- reckless
- enterprising
- Desperate
- Wild
- audacious
- determined
- abandoned
- furious
- frantic
- despairing
- regardless
- mad
- desponding
- hapless
- inextricable
- irremediable
- Extravagant
- monstrous
- preposterous
- absurd
- prodigal
- wasteful
- excessive
- lavish
- profuse
- abnormal
- Fast
- Firm
- secure
- fixed
- constant
- steadfast
- stable
- unyielding
- Unswerving
- rapid
- accelerated
- wild
- dissipated
- pay
- Hasty
- Speedy
- superficial
- hurried
- irascible
- impetuous
- headlong
- crude
- incomplete
- undeveloped
- immature
- swift
- precipitate
- fiery
- passionate
- slight
- quick
- excitable
- cursory
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RECKLESS)
- Husband
- store
- keep
- retain
- accumulate
- hoard
- treasure
- spare
- Loosen
- betray
- surrender
- expose
- imperil
- endanger
- open
- liberate
- free
- Regard
- respect
- notice
- observe
Related words: (words related to RECKLESS)
- PRECIPITATELY
In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift. - ENTERPRISER
One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward. - STORER
One who lays up or forms a store. - DARKEN
Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton. - SLIGHTNESS
The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard. - PRODIGALLY
In a prodigal manner; with profusion of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated. Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows; Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows. Dryden. - HAPLESS
Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid. Dryden. - DARREIN
Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance. - LAVISHNESS
The quality or state of being lavish. - EXPOSER
One who exposes or discloses. - VENTURESOME
Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n. - RAPID
1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; - DARKNESS
1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or - EXCITABLE
Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated. - LAVISHER
One who lavishes. - ACCUMULATE
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. Syn. -- To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard. - DISSIPATIVE
Tending to dissipate. Dissipative system , an assumed system of matter and motions in which forces of friction and resistances of other kinds are introduced without regard to the heat or other molecular actions which they generate; -- opposed to - DARING
Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act. - SLIGHTEN
To slight. B. Jonson. - TREASURER
One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority; - DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - POSTABLE
Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu. - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - INTESTABLE
Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone. - ENQUICKEN
To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More. - REFIX
To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller. - SOLIDARE
A small piece of money. Shak. - PANDARISM
See SWIFT - CONSTABLESS
The wife of a constable. - DISRESPECTABILITY
Want of respectability. Thackeray. - AFFIX
figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to - PANDARIZE
To pander. - DEFIX
To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.