| ADJECTIVE | all | incautious | lacking in caution |
|---|---|---|---|
| all | incautious | carelessly failing to exercise proper caution |
| Meaning | lacking in caution. | |
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| Examples |
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| Narrower | hotheaded, impulsive, impetuous, madcap, tearaway, brainish | Characterized by undue haste / haste and lack of thought or deliberation |
| See also | adventurous, adventuresome | willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises |
| careless | marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness | |
| Opposite | cautious | showing careful forethought |
| Spanish | imprudente, incauto | |
| Catalan | imprudent, incaut | |
| Adverbs | incautiously | without caution or prudence |
| Meaning | carelessly failing to exercise proper caution. | |
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| Example | "an incautious step sent her headlong down the stairs" | |
| Broader | careless | marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness |
| Spanish | incauto | |
| Nouns | incautiousness | the trait of forgetting or ignoring possible danger |
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