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Synonyms for recklessness
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
recklessness
Rashness applies to the actual rushing into danger without counting the cost; temerity denotes the needless exposure of oneself to peril which is or might be clearly seen to be such. Rashness is used chiefly of bodily acts, temerity often of mental or social matters; there may be a noble rashness, but temerity is always used in a bad sense. We say it is amazing that one should have had the temerity to make a statement which could be readily proved a falsehood, or to make an unworthy proposal to one sure to resent it; in such use temerity is often closely allied to hardihood, audacity, or presumption. Venturesomeness dallies on the edge of danger and experiments with it; foolhardiness rushes in for want of sense, heedlessness for want of attention, rashness for want of reflection, recklessness from disregard of consequences. Audacity, in the sense here considered, denotes a dashing and somewhat reckless courage, in defiance of conventionalities, or of other men's opinions, or of what would be deemed probable consequences; as, the audacity of a successful financier. Compare EFFRONTERY.
Synonyms:
audacity, foolhardiness, hardihood, hastiness, heedlessness, over-confidence, precipitancy, precipitation, presumption, rashness, temerity, venturesomenessAntonyms:
care, caution, circumspection, cowardice, hesitation, timidity, wariness
Princeton's WordNet
recklessness, foolhardiness, rashnessnoun
the trait of giving little thought to danger
Synonyms:
rashness, heedlessness, mindlessness, foolhardiness
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List of paraphrases for "recklessness":
imprudence, unconsciousness, carelessness, temerity, indiscretion, indifference, irresponsibility
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#8036 | precipitation | |
#20482 | presumption | |
#25345 | indifference | |
#35844 | audacity | |
#56268 | unconsciousness | |
#57236 | carelessness | |
#75706 | recklessness | |
#76055 | irresponsibility | |
#92835 | indiscretion | |
#113024 | temerity | |
#153600 | hardihood | |
#169361 | rashness | |
#182661 | imprudence | |
#271402 | heedlessness | |
#286508 | mindlessness |
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Donald Trump's Donald Trump, not because I disagree with Donald Trump policies -- though I disagree with many -- but I think there is a carelessness, a recklessness, meanness and, I think, corruption.
What's happening today is a renewal of Israeli arrogance and recklessness, jerusalem is now a military base, sons of Jerusalem are now banned from entering the Old City.
Because frankly, I think it's highly improbable, and second, if in fact he sort of stood over scores of boxes, not really knowing what was in them and said' I hereby declassify everything in here,' that would be such an abuse and that shows such recklessness, it's almost worse than taking the documents.
Wall Street's greed and recklessness and illegal behavior drove this economy into the worst recession since the Great Depression. Millions of people lost their homes, their life savings, and their jobs. And, yes, I believe that we have to break up the major financial institutions. We have to re-establish Glass-Stegall.
There is some recklessness in how they deal with these cases, they think that in the worst case it will go to appeal anyway, so they give defendants the harshest possible sentence knowing that later a retrial can be ordered.
Translations for recklessness
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- लापरवाहीHindi
- negligência, descuidoPortuguese
- neglijențăRomanian
- безрозсудністьUkrainian
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