temerariousadj.
/tɛməˈrɛːrɪəs/ Now only literary.† 2. Acting or happening at random; fortuitous, casual, haphazard. Obsolete.
1. Characterized by temerity; unreasonably adventurous; reckless, heedless, rash.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > [adjective] > rash or reckless
recklesseOE
redmodOE
unreckless?c1225
hastivec1300
racklec1300
testyc1374
rabbisha1387
temeraryc1410
temerous1461
rash1509
temerarious1532
hare-brained1548
temerarec1550
hare-brain1566
hot-spurred1573
overrash1577
hotspur1586
madcap1591
wretchless1598
Phaetontic1608
zeal-blind1615
Phaetontal1617
unresponsable1619
Phaetontical1630
phaetonicala1640
Phaetonic1708
hell-bent1731
harum-scarum1751
unresponsible1764
suicidal1768
rumgumptious1781
shy1787
devil-may-care1799
bullheaded1818
devil-may-carish1825
temeritous1892
kamikaze1952
the mind > emotion > courage > daring > reckless daring > [adjective] > rash or overbold
hardy?c1225
over-hardyc1225
temeraryc1410
overbolda1425
temerous1461
temerarious1532
fool-bold1549
over-daringa1593
fool-heady1611
temeritous1892
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 620/2 He is somwhat ouer temerarious & bold.
1533 J. Frith Bk. answeringe Mores Let. sig. Evi Because they shall not of temeraryous presumpcion reiect this olde father.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xvi. 660/2 The King was one of the first that entred [the breach], choosing rather to be thought temerarious then timorous.
1645 H. Hammond View Infallibility 38 Your resolves are temerarious and presumptuous.
1781 S. Johnson in Boswell Life Johnson (1887) IV. 130 Does it not suppose, that the former judgment was temerarious or negligent?
1890 J. R. Lunn in Church Times 21 Feb. 196/4 I do not think any one will be temerarious enough to maintain that.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adjective]
byc1050
casualc1374
fortuitc1374
fortunelc1374
fortunousc1374
causelessc1386
adventurousc1405
accidental1502
fortunable1509
happya1522
chanceable1549
occasional1569
accidentary1581
emergent1593
streave1598
contingent1604
happening1621
incidental1644
lucky1648
sporadical1654
temerarious1660
spontaneous1664
incidentarya1670
chance1676
antrin?1725
fortuitous1806
sporadic1821
windfall1845
chanced1853
blind1873
happenchance1905
happenstance1905
the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adjective] > random or haphazard
uncertain1303
casualc1460
haphazard1576
roving1577
hazardous1585
chanceful1594
firmless1605
random1655
temerarious1660
aleatory1693
contingent1703
unlawed1789
by the way1846
chancy1860
fluky1880
hitty-missy1885
perchance1891
happenchance1905
happenstance1905
willy-nilly1933
1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 67 Now in heaven nothing is produced casually, nothing temerarious.
1682 J. Norris tr. Hierocles Golden Verses 53 But we should ascribe nothing..to a fortuitous and temerarious cause.
1775 J. Harris Philos. Arrangem. iii. 41 These two Principles are not merely casual and temerarious.
Derivatives
temeˈrariousness n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > [noun] > rashness or recklessness
recklessnessOE
resec1275
outragea1387
rechelesshipc1390
wantonnessc1390
hastivessa1393
recklesslaika1400
racklenessc1405
recklessheadc1410
headiness1447
temerity?a1475
lavishness1477
hastivitya1500
rashnessa1500
Ate1587
temerousness1598
temeritude1623
wretchlessness1625
hare-brainedness1656
rantum-scantum1695
temerariousness1711
blindness1796
devil-may-carishness1829
devil-may-careness1834
devil-may-care1836
rattle-brain1838
devil-may-careism1841
bullheadedness1858
harum-scarumness1863
madcappery1905
the mind > emotion > courage > daring > reckless daring > [noun] > rashness
folly?c1225
reighshipc1275
temerity?a1475
rashnessa1500
audacity1531
overhardiness1594
over-daring1595
temerousness1598
daringness1622
temerariousness1711
1711 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 133 He was overruled by the temerariousness of Orange.
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Temerariousness, rashness, temerity.
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adj.1532