Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

incautiously

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.47 in modern English

Syllables: in-cau-tious-ly
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In an incautious manner; with a lack of caution.

Example Sentences

"His behaviour to herself could now have had no tolerable motive; he had either been deceived with regard to her fortune, or had been gratifying his vanity by encouraging the preference which she believed she had most incautiously shewn."
"[…] the piranhas habitually attack things much larger than themselves. They will snap a finger off a hand incautiously trailed in the water […]"
"The parson explained that the dissenters were insufficiently grounded in religious learning, inappropriately eager to administer the sacraments without his help or sanction, and incautiously emotional in their worship."

Etymology

Etymology tree English incautious Middle English -ly English -ly English incautiously From incautious + -ly.

Inflected Forms

more incautiously (comparative) most incautiously (superlative)

Synonyms

carelessly

Antonyms

cautiously

Questions

What does incautiously mean?: In an incautious manner; with a lack of caution.
Where does incautiously come from?: Etymology tree English incautious Middle English -ly English -ly English incautiously From incautious + -ly.

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