Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Unwisely bold or venturesome; rash. synonym: reckless.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bold without judgment or moderation; foolishly rash and venturesome.
- Synonyms Adventurous, Enterprising, Rash, etc. (see
adventurous ); hot-headed, hare-brained. Seerash .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Marked by
unthinking recklessness withdisregard fordanger ;bold butrash ;hotheaded
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Perhaps the only thing more foolhardy is expecting to diminish interest in a game by publicly protesting it.
Zulu 1 Tactical Airsoft Simulation Puts Folly in Play Emil Steiner 2008
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His experiment with the kite was the best in foolhardy empirical research.
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He wrote "a poem of the world," fell in love with an actress older than himself, became known as foolhardy for his wild escapades, and only slowly sobered down.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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He thought doing so would be "foolhardy" - until the second or third season, he said, when he realized he'd have the chance to end the series on his own terms.
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He thought doing so would be "foolhardy" - until the second or third season, he said, when he realized he'd have the chance to end the series on his own terms.
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It was pleasant to have won her way so far in high places that her health of body and mind should be thus considered — pleasant, less as personal gratification, than that it casually reflected a proof of her good judgment in a course which everybody among her kindred had condemned by calling a foolhardy undertaking.
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But whatever risk there might be, or how strong my faith when my patrons were the subjects of what might be called foolhardy experiments, there came a time when this faith was to have the severest of all tests.
The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure Edward Hooker Dewey
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This might almost be called foolhardy, inasmuch as when he arrived at Mainz, on April seventeenth, he knew little or nothing of the enemy's position, force, or plans.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889
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It was pleasant to have won her way so far in high places that her health of body and mind should be thus considered -- pleasant, less as personal gratification, than that it casually reflected a proof of her good judgment in a course which everybody among her kindred had condemned by calling a foolhardy undertaking.
The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy 1884
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And in a move that could be described as foolhardy or inspired, she has stayed faithful to the original material.
yarb commented on the word foolhardy
but you won't fool Laurel.
May 10, 2008
dewiclark29 commented on the word foolhardy
fool-hahr-dee
–adjective, -di·er, -di·est. recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
September 22, 2008