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incautious

WordNet
  1. (adj) incautious
    carelessly failing to exercise proper caution "an incautious step sent her headlong down the stairs"
  2. (adj) incautious
    lacking in caution "an incautious remark","incautious talk"
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. incautious
    Not cautious; unwary; not circumspect; heedless.
  2. incautious
    Synonyms Indiscreet, imprudent, impolitic, uncircumspect, inconsiderate.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Incautious
    in-kaw′shus not cautious or careful
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Pref. in-, not + cautious,: cf. L. incautus,

Usage in the news

NATO is incautiously expanding eastward, which has thoughtful Russians worried about being fenced out of Europe—and worse. theatlantic.com

Usage in scientific papers

The incautious reader might adopt either the maximum value (especially for the ma jority of sources in the catalog for which only one value is given), or simply average the two numbers to estimate the mean X-ray luminosity of the source.
The Hard X-ray Luminosity of OB Star Populations: Implications for the Contribution of Star Formation to the Cosmic X-ray Background

Usage in literature

An incautious word, and you may find yourselves in a most difficult position. "The Destroyer" by Burton Egbert Stevenson

At a little distance, from a point invisible, an incautious footstep grated upon a gravel path of the terrace and was instantly hushed. "Nobody" by Louis Joseph Vance

Lambert was incautious of his own safety in his great concern for his horse. "The Duke Of Chimney Butte" by G. W. Ogden

They are strict and awful beings, and must not be incautiously approached. "History of Religion" by Allan Menzies

Godwin was often an incautious rhetorician. "Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle" by H. N. Brailsford

Several of the Sioux, who had incautiously left cover, fell. "Pathfinders of the Great Plains" by Lawrence J. Burpee

The pile of boxes which had been a few feet away, were thrusting themselves at me I moved incautiously and knocked them over. "Astounding Stories, March, 1931" by Various

This evening it ended in Juell incautiously offering 10 kroner to any one who would bore. "Farthest North" by Fridtjof Nansen

Incautiously manipulating, he took the shock himself. "Benjamin Franklin, A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago" by John S. C. Abbott

The innocent son of science, proud of his accomplishments, made a most incautious statement, and the result was peculiar. "The Galaxy" by Various

Usage in poetry
IV. And if by him, incautious rover,
As mine thou'rt known,
Each bosom secret thou'dst discover:
I'd guard my own.
O wanderer, stay where life is sweet,
And jubilant earth is glad of May,
Disturb not with incautious feet
The mystery of an elder day.
He came, inform'd in every art,
That makes th'incautious virgin weep:
Beguiles the unsuspecting heart,
And lulls mistrust to silken sleep.
She "languidly responded"; he
"Incautiously assented";
Doretta "proffered lazily";
Will "speedily invented";
She "parried," "whispered," "bade," and "mused";
He "urged," "acknowledged," and "refused."
While the thunder of tears like an avalanche of stones
into little green beetles will change,
thus bending down to the water by turns
we'll incautiously sail to oblivion;
left behind by us on earth
only our shadows shall cry.