| Main Entry: | rashness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recklessness |
Synonyms: |
carelessness, foolhardiness, haste, hastiness, heedlessness, indiscretion |
| Concept: | Rashness. |
| Category: | 3. Prospective Affections |
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-nouns
rashness; temerity, want of caution, imprudence, indiscretion; overconfidence, presumption, audacity., precipitancy, precipitation; impetuosity; levity; foolhardihood, foolhardness; heedlessness, thoughtlessness (inattention); carelessness (neglect); desperation; Quixotism, knight-errantry; fire eating., gaming, gambling; blind bargain, leap in the dark, fool's paradise; too many eggs in one basket., desperado, rashling, madcap, daredevil, Hotspur, fire eater, bully, bravo, Hector, scapegrace, enfant perdu; Don Quixote, knight-errant, Icarus; adventurer; gambler, gamester; dynamitard; boomer [U.S.].
-verbs
be rash; stick at nothing, play a desperate game; run into danger; play with fire, play with edge tools., carry too much sail, sail too near the wind, ride at single anchor, go out of one's depth., take a leap in the dark, buy a pig in a poke., donner tete baissee; knock, one's bead against a wall (be unskillful) [more]; rush on destruction; kick against the pricks, tempt Providence, go on a forlorn hope., reckon one's chickens before they are hatched, count one's chickens before they are hatched, reckon without one's host; catch at straws; trust to a broken reed, lean on a broken reed.
-adjectives
rash, incautious, indiscreet; imprudent, improvident, temerarious; uncalculating; heedless; careless (neglectful); without ballast, heels over head, head over heels; giddy (inattentive); wanton, reckless, wild, madcap; desperate, devil-may-care., hot-blooded, hotheaded, hotbrained; headlong, headstrong; breakneck; foolhardy; harebrained; precipitate, impulsive. overconfident, overweening; venturesome, venturous; adventurous, Quixotic, fire eating, cavalier; janty, jaunty, free and easy., off one's guard (inexpectant) [more].
-adverbs
post haste, a corps perdu, hand over head, tete baissee, headforemost; happen what may, come what may.
-phrases
neck or nothing, the devil being in one; non semper temeritas est felix [Livy]; paucis temeritas est bono multis malo [Phaedrus].
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Antonyms: |
caution |
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| Main Entry: | audacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recklessness, daring |
Synonyms: |
adventurousness, audaciousness, boldness, bravery, courage, dauntlessness, enterprise, fearlessness, guts, intrepidity, nerve, rashness, valor, venturesomeness |
Antonyms: |
care, carefulness, caution, reserve, timidity |
| Main Entry: | courage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boldness, braveness |
Synonyms: |
adventuresomeness, adventurousness, audacity, backbone, bravery, bravura, daring, dash, dauntlessness, determination, endurance, enterprise, fearlessness, firmness, fortitude, gallantry, gameness, grit, guts, hardihood, heroism, intrepidity, lion-heartedness, mettle, nerve, pluck, power, prowess, pugnacity, rashness, recklessness, resolution, spirit, spunk, stoutheartedness, temerity, tenacity, valor, venturesomeness, élan |
Antonyms: |
cowardice, faint-heartedness, fear, meekness, timidity, weakness |
| Main Entry: | folly |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense, ridiculous idea |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, craziness, daftness, dottiness, dumb thing to do, dumb trick, fatuity, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, impracticality, imprudence, inadvisability, inanity, indiscretion, irrationality, lunacy, madness, obliquity, preposterousness, rashness, recklessness, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, triviality, unsoundness, vice, witlessness |
Antonyms: |
judgment, knowledge, seriousness, understanding, wisdom |
| Main Entry: | haste |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme speed, hurry |
Synonyms: |
alacrity, briskness, bustle, carelessness, celerity, dash, dispatch, drive, expedition, expeditiousness, fleetness, flurry, foolhardiness, hastiness, heedlessness, hurly-burly, hurriedness, hustle, hustling, impatience, impetuosity, incautiousness, nimbleness, pace, precipitancy, precipitateness, prematureness, press, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, rashness, recklessness, rush, scamper, scramble, scurry, scuttle, swiftness, urgency, velocity |
| Notes: | haste is overly eager speed while hasten is to act or move at high speed |
Antonyms: |
delay, leisure, lingering, rest, slowness |
| Main Entry: | impatience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inability, unwillingness to wait |
Synonyms: |
agitation, anger, annoyance, ants in pants, anxiety, avidity, disquietude, eagerness, edginess, excitement, expectancy, fretfulness, haste, hastiness, heat*, impetuosity, intolerance, irritability, irritableness, nervousness, quick temper, rashness, restiveness, restlessness, shortness, snappiness, suspense, uneasiness, vehemence, violence |
Antonyms: |
control, ease, endurance, forbearance, patience, tolerance, waiting, willingness |
| Main Entry: | indiscretion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mistake |
Synonyms: |
bumble, crudeness, dropping the ball, dumb move, error, excitability, faux pas, folly, fool mistake, foolishness, foul-up, gaffe, gaucherie, goof, hastiness, imprudence, indiscreetness, ingenuousness, lapse, miscue, misjudgment, misspeak, naiveté, rashness, recklessness, screw-up, simple-mindedness, slip of the tongue, slip*, slip-up, stumble, stupidity, tactlessness, thoughtlessness, unseemliness |
Antonyms: |
care, discreetness, discretion, right |
| Main Entry: | nonsense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | craziness, ridiculousness |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, babble, balderdash, baloney, bananas, bombast, bull*, bunk, claptrap, drivel, fatuity, flightiness, folly, foolishness, fun, gibberish, giddiness, hogwash, hooey, hot air, imprudence, inanity, irrationality, jazz, jest, jive, joke, ludicrousness, madness, mumbo jumbo, palaver, poppycock, prattle, pretense, ranting, rashness, rot, rubbish, scrawl, scribble, senselessness, silliness, soft soap, stupidity, thoughtlessness, trash*, tripe |
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clarity, common sense, fact, intelligibility, sense, truth, understanding |
| Main Entry: | temerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nerve, audacity |
Synonyms: |
assurance, boldness, brass, carelessness, daring, effrontery, foolhardiness, forwardness, gall, hardihood, hastiness, heedlessness, impertinence, impetuosity, imprudence, impudence, impulsiveness, indiscretion, intrepidity, intrusiveness, overconfidence, pluck, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, presumption, rashness, recklessness, rudeness, thoughtlessness, venturesomeness |
Antonyms: |
care, caution, cowardice, forethought, hesitation |