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FOOLHARDY (foolhardier, foolhardiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: foolhardier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, foolhardiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does foolhardy mean? 

FOOLHARDY (adjective)
  The adjective FOOLHARDY has 1 sense:

1. marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequencesplay

  Familiarity information: FOOLHARDY used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FOOLHARDY (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences

Synonyms:

foolhardy; heady; rash; reckless

Context example:

a rash attempt to climb Mount Everest

Similar:

bold (fearless and daring)

Derivation:

foolhardiness (the trait of giving little thought to danger)


 Context examples 


Ten to one, if I were so foolhardy as to cut the HISPANIOLA from her anchor, I and the coracle would be knocked clean out of the water.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And now I began to feel that I was neglecting my business, that since I had been so foolhardy as to come ashore with these desperadoes, the least I could do was to overhear them at their councils, and that my plain and obvious duty was to draw as close as I could manage, under the favourable ambush of the crouching trees.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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