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RECKLESS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences
Example:
a rash attempt to climb Mount Everest
Synonyms:
foolhardy; heady; rash; reckless
Classified under:
Similar:
bold (fearless and daring)
Derivation:
recklessness (the trait of giving little thought to danger)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Characterized by careless unconcern
Example:
reckless squandering of public funds
Synonyms:
heedless; reckless
Classified under:
Similar:
careless (marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful)
Derivation:
recklessness (the trait of giving little thought to danger)
Context examples:
Lost they indubitably were; but the boat remained, and Wolf Larsen made one more reckless effort to recover it.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I have tried to imitate here Lord Roxton's jerky talk, his short, strong sentences, the half-humorous, half-reckless tone that ran through it all.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I felt cold and dismayed: my worst fears then were probably true: he had in all probability left England and rushed in reckless desperation to some former haunt on the Continent.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I was a young chap then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you would call over here a highway robber.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Probably, if I had lately left a good home and kind parents, this would have been the hour when I should most keenly have regretted the separation; that wind would then have saddened my heart; this obscure chaos would have disturbed my peace! as it was, I derived from both a strange excitement, and reckless and feverish, I wished the wind to howl more wildly, the gloom to deepen to darkness, and the confusion to rise to clamour.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Disappointment made me reckless.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
