Rash
[ræʃ]
Definition
(noun.) a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences; 'a rash of bank robberies'; 'a blizzard of lawsuits'.
(noun.) any red eruption of the skin.
(adj.) imprudently incurring risk; 'do something rash that he will forever repent'- George Meredith .
Editor: Melinda--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To pull off or pluck violently.
(v. t.) To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.
(n.) A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.
(n.) An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.
(superl.) Sudden in action; quick; hasty.
(superl.) Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.
(superl.) Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.
(superl.) Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.
(superl.) So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
(v. t.) To prepare with haste.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Reckless (in action), headlong, hasty, precipitate, heedless, thoughtless, inconsiderate, indiscreet, impulsive, fool-hardy, hot-headed, hot-brained, hare-brained, without ballast.
n. (Med.) Exanthem, exanthema, eruption, breaking out.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Headstrong, audacious, hasty, precipitate, reckless, foolhardy, careless, adventurous,thoughtless, indiscreet, venturesome, overventuresome, incautious, unwary,heedless
ANT:Wary, cautious, calculating, discreet, unventuresome, dubitating, hesitating,reluctant, timid
Checker: Nathan
Definition
v.t. (obs.) to tear to lacerate.
n. a slight eruption on the skin.
adj. (comp. Rash′er; superl. Rash′est) hasty: headstrong: incautious.—adj. Rash′-embraced′ (Shak.) rashly undertaken.—ns. Rash′er a thin slice of broiled bacon perh. because quickly roasted; Rash′ling a rash person.—adv. Rash′ly precipitately.—n. Rash′ness.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
adj. Insensible to the value of our advice.
Edited by Bessie
Examples
- Hence the supposed extermination of so many species having similar habits with the rock-pigeon seems a very rash assumption. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Come down, he said, rash girl! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I won her through a rash vow. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Be patient, Jo, don't get despondent or do rash things, write to me often, and be my brave girl, ready to help and cheer all. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Begludship's pardon--victim of rash action--brains. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Take it like a man, and don't do anything rash, for God's sake. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Remember that the ambitious man who was looking at those Forget-me-nots under the water was very warm-hearted and rash. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Being so near here, Mr. Micawber was of opinion that it would be rash not to come on, and see the Cathedral. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Gurth, said the Jester, I know thou thinkest me a fool, or thou wouldst not be so rash in putting thy head into my mouth. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Many Germans who thought him rash or tawdry in their secret hearts, supported him publicly because he had so taking an air of success. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In cases of this extraordinary kind, the rash way is sometimes the best way. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I snatched up a huge fragment of rock; it would have crushed my rash foe. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Before two years passed, the rash pair were both dead, and laid quietly side by side under one slab. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In the meantime I was to fetch the red youth to our cell so that we would be in readiness to make our rash break for freedom together. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Would it not be rash to conclude that there was no passion behind those sonnets to Delia which strike us as the thin music of a mandolin? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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