Foolhardy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Foolhardy \Fool"har`dy\, a. [OF. folhardi. See {Fool} idiot, and
     {Hardy}.]
     Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold.
     --Howell.
  
     Syn: Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless;


          headlong; incautious. See {Rash}.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  foolhardy
       adj : marked by unthinking boldness; with defiant disregard for
             danger or consequences; "foolhardy enough to try to
             seize the gun from the hijacker"; "became the fiercest
             and most reckless of partisans"-Macaulay; "a reckless
             driver"; "a rash attempt to climb the World Trade
             Center" [syn: {rash}, {reckless}]
       [also: {foolhardiest}, {foolhardier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "foolhardy":
     adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, brash, careless,
     cheeky, daredevil, daring, death-defying, devil-may-care,
     enterprising, fire-eating, forward, gutsy, harebrained, hasty,
     headlong, heedless, hotheaded, impetuous, imprudent, incautious,
     irresponsible, madbrain, madbrained, madcap, nervy, overbold,
     precipitate, presumptuous, rash, reckless, temerarious,
     thoughtless, unthinking, venturesome, venturous, wild, wild-ass