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incautious

adj
/ɪnˈkɑʃəs/US

Etymology

From in- (negative prefix) + cautious.

  1. derived from cautiō
  2. derived from caution
  3. inherited from caucioun — “bail, guarantee, pledge”
  4. suffixed as cautious — “caution + ous”
  5. formed as incautious — “in- + cautious”

Definitions

  1. careless, reckless, not exercising proper caution.

    • "You might have remained so still," replies Jones, "if you had not been unfortunate, I will venture to say incautious, in the placing your affections.
    • Pot-plants on spindle-legged stands lurked in wait for an incautious gesture.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at incautious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01incautious02reckless03heedless04unaware05heed06careful07sad08valiant09courage

A definitional loop anchored at incautious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at incautious

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA