RECKLESS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of reckless in English

(Definition of reckless from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of reckless from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of reckless from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of reckless

reckless
Is punishment for attempts at crime or for reckless behavior illegitimate?
It was entirely in keeping with his outlook that he should have approached overseas enterprise in an almost reckless frame of mind.
Unfortunately, some of the functions seem to be written with a fairly reckless disregard for efficiency.
Reckless self-expression is here coterminous not just with the surrender of the throne, but with spiritual death.
They are full of factual errors, gross generalisations and reckless assumptions.
Any of these individual violations may be deemed routine, reasoned, reckless or malicious.
Reckless inclusion of ontology elements from the source ontologies (even when homogeneous) is likely to lead to a problematic, invalid, contradictory, incoherent or inconsistent ontology.
However, this principle required more flexibility in the post-cold war era when many reckless and even brutal belligerent factions fought each other in anarchy.
For any cautious scholar, this kind of speculating appears reckless.
It would have been politically reckless simply to end the state programme without honouring claims already earned.
But we would be reckless to assume that even so royalist a form as the masque contains nothing but pure sycophancy.
The combination of reckless lending, deteriorating business conditions, and ballooning foreign debt obligations was devastating.
She squandered her earnings with the most reckless profusion, and quarrelled with her best friends from the ungovernable petulance of her temper.
There's no reason to tolerate wreckless driving in place of reckless driving.
First, people are prone to assent to reckless and dangerous undertakings.
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Translations of reckless

in Chinese (Traditional)
魯莽的, 輕率的, 不顧後果的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
鲁莽的, 轻率的, 不顾后果的…
in Spanish
temerario, imprudente, imprudente [masculine-feminine…
in Portuguese
imprudente, negligente, descuidado…
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बेपर्वा…
無謀な, 無鉄砲な, 無謀(むぼう)な…
atak, pervâsız, kayıtsız…
imprudent/-ente, téméraire…
temerari, imprudent…
roekeloos…
அபாயங்கள் மற்றும் சாத்தியமான முடிவுகளைப் பற்றி கவலைப்படாமல் ஆபத்தான ஒன்றைச் செய்வது…
(खतरों एवं दुष्परिणामों के प्रति) असावधान, दुस्साहसी, लापरवाह…
બેપરવા, બેફામ…
ubesindig, hasarderet…
hänsynslös, vårdslös…
melulu…
leichtsinnig…
tankeløs, ubetenksom, uforsiktig…
لاپروا…
нерозсудливий, необачний…
безрассудный, неосторожный…
ప్రమాదకరమైనది చేయడం, ప్రమాదాల గురించి, బహుశా ఎదురయే ఫలితాల గురించి చింతించకుండా ఉండడం…
طائش, مُتَهَوِّر…
বেপরোয়া…
nedbalý, lehkomyslný…
sembrono, ceroboh…
สะเพร่า…
thiếu thận trọng…
lekkomyślny, brawurowy…
무분별한…
spericolato, imprudente, temerario…
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