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foolhardy

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Adjective
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fool=hard=y

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective foolhardy has 1 sense

  • foolhardy(s = adj.all) heady, rash, reckless - marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences; "foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker"; "became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans"; "a reckless driver"; "a rash attempt to climb Mount Everest"
  • Derived form noun foolhardiness1

CIDE DICTIONARY

foolhardya. [OF. folhardi. See Fool idiot, and Hardy.].
     Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold.  Howell.
Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

foolhardy, adj. (foolhardier, foolhardiest) rashly or foolishly bold; reckless.

Derivative
foolhardily adv. foolhardiness n.
Etymology
ME f. OF folhardi f. fol foolish + hardi bold

THESAURUS

foolhardy

adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, brash, careless, cheeky, daredevil, daring, death-defying, devil-may-care, enterprising, fire-eating, forward, gutsy, harebrained, hasty, headlong, heedless, hotheaded, impetuous, imprudent, incautious, irresponsible, madbrain, madbrained, madcap, nervy, overbold, precipitate, presumptuous, rash, reckless, temerarious, thoughtless, unthinking, venturesome, venturous, wild, wild-ass

ROGET THESAURUS

foolhardy

Rashness

N rashness, temerity, want of caution, imprudence, indiscretion, overconfidence, presumption, audacity, precipitancy, precipitation, impetuosity, levity, foolhardihood, foolhardiness, heedlessness, thoughtlessness, carelessness, desperation, Quixotism, knight-errantry, fire eating, gaming, gambling, blind bargain, leap in the dark, leap of faith, 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, rash, incautious, indiscreet, imprudent, improvident, temerarious, uncalculating, heedless, careless, without ballast, heels over head, head over heels, giddy, 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, post haste, a corps perdu, hand over head, tete baissee, headforemost, happen what may, come what may, neck or nothing, the devil being in one, non semper temeritas est felix, paucis temeritas est bono multis malo.

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