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incautious

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Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective incautious has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

incautiousa. [Pref. in- not + cautious: cf. L. incautus.].
     Not cautious; not circumspect; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; heedless; careless; as, an incautious step; an incautious remark.  [1913 Webster]
    "You . . . incautious tread
    On fire with faithless embers overspread.
    "  [1913 Webster]
    "His rhetorical expressions may easily captivate any incautious reader."
Syn. -- Unwary; indiscreet; inconsiderate; imprudent; impolitic; careless; heedless; thoughtless.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

incautious, adj. heedless, rash.

Derivative
incaution n. incautiously adv. incautiousness n.

THESAURUS

incautious

asleep, brash, brazen, brazenfaced, goofing off, hubristic, improvident, imprudent, impudent, indiscreet, injudicious, insolent, napping, nodding, off-guard, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, oversure, overweening, rash, sleeping, temerarious, unalert, uncautious, unchary, unguarded, unprepared, unready, unvigilant, unwary, unwatchful

ROGET THESAURUS

incautious

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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