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rashness

Roget category 863

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.3. Prospective affections

#863. Rashness

noun

rashness etc. adj. — temerity, want of caution, imprudence, indiscretionoverconfidence, presumption, audacity.
precipitancy, precipitationimpetuositylevityfoolhardihood, foolhardinessheedlessness, thoughtlessness etc. (inattention) 458carelessness etc. (neglect) 460desperationQuixotism, knight-errantryfire eating.
gaming, gamblingblind bargain, leap in the dark, leap of faith, fool's paradisetoo many eggs in one basket.
desperado, rashling, madcap, daredevil, Hotspur, fire eater, bully, bravo, Hector, scapegrace, enfant perdu [Fr.]Don Quixote, knight-errant, Icarusadventurergambler, gamesterdynamitardboomer [U.S.].

verb

be rash etc. adj. — stick at nothing, play a desperate gamerun into danger etc. 665play with fire, play with edge tools.
carry too much sail, sail too near the wind, ride at single anchor, go out of one's depth.
take a leap in the dark, buy a pig in a poke.
donner tete baissee [Fr.]knock, one's bead against a wall etc. (be unskillful) 699rush on destructionkick against the pricks, tempt Providence, go on a forlorn hope, go on a fool's errand.
reckon one's chickens before they are reckon one's chickens before they are hatched, count one's chickens before they are hatched, reckon without one's hostcatch at strawstrust to a broken reed, lean on a broken reed.

adjective

rash, incautious, indiscreetimprudent, improvident, temerariousuncalculatingheedlesscareless etc. (neglectful) 460without ballast, heels over head, head over heelsgiddy etc. (inattentive) 458wanton, reckless, wild, madcapdesperate, devil-may-care.
hot-blooded, hotheaded, hotbrainedheadlong, headstrongbreakneckfoolhardyharebrainedprecipitate, impulsive.
overconfident, overweeningventuresome, venturousadventurous, Quixotic, fire eating, cavalierjanty, jaunty, free and easy.
off one's guard etc. (inexpectant) 508.

adverb

post haste, a corps perdu [Fr.], hand over head, tete baissee [Fr.], headforemosthappen what may, come what may.

phrase

neck or nothing, the devil being in onenon semper temeritas est felix [Lat.] [Livy]; paucis temeritas est bono multis malo [Lat.] [Phaedrus].

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