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2. I scarce have leisure to salute you,Shak. Syn. Precipitate; headlong; headstrong; foolhardy; hasty; indiscreet; heedless; thoughtless; incautious; careless; inconsiderate; unwary. Rash, Adventurous, Foolhardy. A man is adventurous who incurs risk or hazard from a love of the arduous and the bold. A man is rash who does it from the mere impulse of his feelings, without counting the cost. A man is foolhardy who throws himself into danger in disregard or defiance of the consequences. Was never known a more adventurous knight.Dryden. Her rash hand in evil hourMilton. If any yet be so foolhardyHudibras. Rash Rasher Rashful Rashling Rashly He that doth anything rashly, must do it willingly; for he was free to deliberate or not.L'Estrange. Rashness We offend . . . by rashness, which is an affirming or denying, before we have sufficiently informed ourselves.South. Syn. Temerity; foolhardiness; precipitancy; precipitation; hastiness; indiscretion; heedlessness; inconsideration; carelessness. See Temerity. |
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