Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Incautious.

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  • adjective Incautious.

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  • adjective Not cautious.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ cautious

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Examples

  • I am careless, improvident, uncautious, happy out of sheer well - being and overplus of physical energy.

    Chapter 15 2010

  • Do you think for a minute that Hillary would have been so uncautious as to put her smackdown on MSNBC if Obama hadn't already showed it could be done?

    Poll: Obama Up By 19 In Maryland Primary 2009

  • A young Spanish girl seeks her mother fearfully, uncautious of the danger as she wanders into the road.

    Vantage Point (2008): D- 2008

  • A young Spanish girl seeks her mother fearfully, uncautious of the danger as she wanders into the road.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • Hillary has always been a true Wellesley girl - she's diligent and hard-working and cautious - but she had her real political coming-of-age with uncautious, committed people like John Doar and Marian Wright Edelman, and for a long time the influence of those mentors seemed to outweigh all the careful genes.

    Nora Ephron: Mistakes 2008

  • Toaff, whom Yuval called a respected historian, produced a work with what he called "a poor scientific level and uncautious rhetoric."

    Professor Ariel Toaff withdraws his book " Bloody Passovers: The Jews of Europe and Ritual Murders" 2007

  • Toaff, whom Yuval called a respected historian, produced a work with what he called "a poor scientific level and uncautious rhetoric."

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • As she read it over to herself she thought that there was a tone through it of natural feminine uncautious eagerness.

    The Way We Live Now 2004

  • Sometimes this surf increases suddenly during perfect calms to as great a force and fury as when a gale of wind is blowing, beating to pieces all boats that may not have been hauled sufficiently high upon the beach, and carrying away uncautious natives.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • His thrifty nature had obviously compelled him to overlook the ink stains blotting the wood and the protruding splinters lying in wait for an uncautious finger.

    Come the Spring Julie Garwood 1997

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