| 单词 | incautious |
| 释义 | incautious (once / 4643 pages) adj If you're incautious, you don't worry about problems that might come up — you're a little irresponsible. An incautious person might paddle off in a kayak without putting a life jacket on. Incautious behavior might include betting your whole paycheck on a poker game, bringing six stray dogs home, or lighting a bottle rocket and launching it from your hand. An incautious child is probably used to hearing adults calling, "Be careful!" Incautious combines the "not" prefix in- and cautious, or "careful," from its Latin root cautionem, "caution, care, or foresight." WORD FAMILYincautious: incautiously, incautiousness+/caution: cautionary, cautioned, cautioning, cautions, cautious, incaution, precaution/cautious: cautiously, cautiousness, incautious, overcautious/overcautious: overcautiously/precaution: precautional, precautionary, precautions USAGE EXAMPLESWoe, however, to the scientist incautious enough to challenge the party line exonerating sugar. Economist(Dec 15, 2016) Although Molly has publicly revealed aspects of her son’s emotional life that other parents might hesitate to share, she is not incautious. The Guardian(Nov 05, 2016) Ginsburg quickly said those political remarks had been “incautious” and added, “I did something I should not have done.” Washington Post(Oct 20, 2016) 1adj lacking in caution an incautious remark incautious talk Syn|Ant adventuresome, adventurous willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises carelessmarked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, tearawaycharacterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation cautious showing careful forethought unadventurouslacking in boldness carefulexercising caution or showing care or attention cagey, cagy, charycharacterized by great caution and wariness fabianusing cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation gingerlywith extreme care or delicacy guarded, restrainedprudent overcautiousunnecessarily cautious 2adj carelessly failing to exercise proper caution an incautious step sent her headlong down the stairs Syn careless marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful |
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