recklessly
/ɹˈɛkləsli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.99 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
With contempt for the rights, feelings, or well-being of others.
Example Sentences
- "Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen."
- "Zoe popped her head up to watch in terror through a little window, as they spread chaos and carnage in their wake, not to mention quite a few broken-off wing mirrors. Burt was driving so recklessly, she was frightened he would kill them both."
- "Brooks was also convicted of 61 counts of recklessly endangering safety with the use of a dangerous weapon, six counts of fatal hit and run, two counts of felony bail jumping and one count of misdemeanor domestic battery."
- "But some Democrats are raising red flags about DOGE staffers “infiltrating multiple agencies at once,” and “recklessly and haphazardly combining data without any verification or validation,” as one senior House Oversight Committee Democratic staffer put it to CNN."
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 Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Old English rēċelēaslīċe Middle English reklesly English recklessly From Middle English reklesly, from Old English rēcelēaslīce; equivalent to reckless + -ly.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: reklesly, rēcelēaslīce
Inflected Forms
more recklessly (comparative)
most recklessly (superlative)