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.
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• ENTERPRISER
  One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
• 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.
• 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.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• 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
• LAVISHER
  One who lavishes.
• EXCITABLE
  Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
• 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.