foolhardy
adjEtymology
From Middle English folehardy, foolhardi, folherdi, from Old French fol hardi (“foolishly bold”), from Old French fol (“foolish, silly; insane, mad”) (from Latin follis (“bellows; purse, sack; inflated ball; belly, paunch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”)) + Old French hardi (“durable, hardy, tough”) (past tense of hardir (“to harden”), from the unattested Frankish *hartjan, from Proto-Germanic *harduz (“hard; brave”)), equivalent to fool + hardy. Compare fool-bold, fool-large, etc.
Definitions
Marked by unthinking recklessness with disregard for danger
Marked by unthinking recklessness with disregard for danger; boldly rash; hotheaded.
- The master's pulse stood still, and he stared helplessly. The buzz of study ceased. The pupils wondered if this fool-hardy boy had lost his mind.
- In the middle distance several foolhardy souls in wet suits were surfing toward some foamy outbursts on the rocky headland; nearer in, a scattering of paddlers was being continually and, it seemed, happily engulfed by explosive waves.
- It is a reckless, foolhardy leap into the unknown and the prelude, perhaps, to what the existentialist writer Albert Camus described in La chute – a fall from grace, in every conceivable sense.
A person who is foolhardy.
- Resentful of the saddle-fast stranger, eight foolhardies return for more adventure.
- Some foolhardies in the schoolhouse laughed at him then and Griff stuck their heads into toilets, one by one over the next week.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA