foolhardy

[Fool·har`dy]

If you decide you are going to scale Mt. Everest next weekend without any training or experience, that would be a foolhardy decision. Use the adjective foolhardy to describe someone who rushes into action without considering the consequences.

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Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold.

Adjective S.
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 th


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Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold.


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.

Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold.

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Usage Examples

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.

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Other Usage Examples

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

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