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Another word for rash

rash Synonyms

rash

modif.

precipitate, impetuous, impulsive, foolish, hotheaded, thoughtless, reckless, headstrong, bold, careless, determined, audacious, heedless, madcap, unthinking, headlong, incautious, wild, precipitant, hasty, overhasty, unwary, injudicious, venturous, foolhardy, imprudent, venturesome, adventurous, daring, daredevil, jumping to conclusions, insuppressible, breakneck, irrational, fiery, furious, frenzied, passionate, immature, hurried, aimless, excited, feverish, indomitable, tenacious, frantic, indiscreet, quixotic, uncalculating, ill-advised, inadvisable, unconsidered, without thinking, unadvised, irresponsible, brash, precipitous, premature, sudden, burning one's fingers, harebrained, hotblooded, harum-scarum, game to the last, devil-may-care, rushing in where angels fear to tread.

Antonyms calm*, cautious, level-headed.

rash Synonyms

rash

n.

A skin eruption
hives, dermatitis, redness, prickly heat; see blemish, disease.
A sudden large number of instances
outbreak, spate, wave; see fit 2, plenty.

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Another word for rash

adjective

Characterized by unthinking boldness and haste:

brash, foolhardy, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, hotheaded, ill-considered, impetuous, improvident, impulsive, incautious, madcap, precipitant, precipitate, reckless, slapdash, temerarious, unconsidered. See careful

noun

A sudden increase in something, as the occurrence of a disease:

epidemic, outbreak, plague. See increase

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"We all need to stop and think this through and not make any rash decisions," I said.
It was a rash thing to do.
In 1534 Lord Thomas Fitzgerald, better known as Silken Thomas (so called because of a fantastic fringe worn in the helmet of his followers), a young man of rash courage and good abilities, son of the Lord Deputy Kildare, believing his father, who was imprisoned in the Tower of London, to have been beheaded, organized a rebellion against the English Government, and marched with his followers from the mansion of the earls of Kildare in Thomas Court, through Dame's Gate to St Mary's Abbey, where, in the council chamber, he proclaimed himself a rebel.
Look, if she did go and do something rash, we both know the jerk deserved it.
It would be rash summarily to dismiss this old tradition of the twenty-one nasks as pure invention.

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