| Main Entry: | recklessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | carelessness |
Synonyms: |
abandon, desperation, disregard, foolhardiness, temerity |
Antonyms: |
carefulness |
| Main Entry: | recklessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
adventurous, breakneck, careless, cavalier, desperate, devil, foolhardy, free, harebrained, headlong, headstrong, heedless, heels over head, hot, hot, improvident, imprudent, impulsive, incautious, indiscreet, jaunty, madcap, off one's guard, overconfident, overweening, precipitate, quixotic, rakehelly, rash, reckless, temerarious, uncalculating, venturesome, venturous, wanton, wild, without ballast
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| Main Entry: | abandon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | careless disregard for consequences |
Synonyms: |
disregard, freedom, impulse, licentiousness, recklessness, spontaneity, thoughtlessness, uninhibitedness, unrestraint, wantonness, wildness |
Antonyms: |
restraint, self-restraint |
| 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: | desperation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rashness |
Synonyms: |
carelessness, defiance, foolhardiness, frenzy, heedlessness, impetuosity, madness, recklessness |
Antonyms: |
calm, cautiousness, collectedness, peace, peacefulness |
| Main Entry: | extravagance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indulgence; waste |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, amenity, dissipation, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expenditure, folly, frill, icing on the cake, immoderation, improvidence, lavishness, luxury, outrageousness, overdoing, overindulgence, overspending, preposterousness, prodigality, profligacy, profusion, recklessness, squander, squandering, superfluity, unreasonableness, unrestraint, unthrift, wastefulness, wildness |
Antonyms: |
economy, moderation, providence, saving, thrift, thriftiness |
| 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: | 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: | 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 |