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reckless

adj
/ˈɹɛkləs/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *rōkijaną Proto-West Germanic *rōkijan Old English rēċan Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Old English rēċelēas Middle English rekles English reckless From Middle English rekles, reckeles, rekkeles, (also recheles), from Old English rēcelēas (“reckless, careless, negligent”), equivalent to reck + -less. Cognate with West Frisian roekeleas (“reckless”), Dutch roekeloos (“reckless”), German Low German ruuklos (“careless”), German ruchlos (“careless, notorious”).

  1. inherited from rēcelēas — “reckless, careless, negligent”
  2. inherited from rekles

Definitions

  1. Careless or heedless

    Careless or heedless; headstrong or rash.

  2. Indifferent or oblivious to danger or the consequences thereof.

    • Escalation is the film’s nuclear energy source. It’s there, of course, in the downright lunatic stunts performed by [Tom] Cruise, again defying good sense and his own advancing years to top his previous feats of reckless self-endangerment.

  3. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

reckless endangerment, recklessly, recklessness

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at reckless. 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.

01reckless02heedless03unaware04heed05careful06sad07valiant08courage09incautious

A definitional loop anchored at reckless. 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 reckless

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