foolhardy

3 definitions found

foolhardy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

foolhardy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  foolhardy
      adj 1: marked by 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 Mount Everest" [syn: foolhardy, heady,
             rash, reckless]

foolhardy - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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