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Definition: Recklessly |
RecklesslyAdverb1. In a reckless manner. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "recklessly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
Crosswords: Recklessly |
| English words defined with "recklessly": criminal negligence, culpable negligence ♦ extravagant ♦ hell-bent ♦ prodigal, profligate ♦ rampage ♦ spendthrift, squanderer ♦ To run amuck. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "recklessly": Good Samaritan doctrine ♦ inline. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Never before have the fairest energies and aspirations of men flung so recklessly and incessantly into an abyss whence comes no sound or answer.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Lynn Pearson | Some gardeners flail recklessly at the weeds' offending shoots, while others dig at its roots. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A late bather came in, and Al hurried out and walked recklessly toward the platform, his eye peeled for girls. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Moldova | Under the Court's 1999 ruling, parties filing lawsuits must prove that the information was false and defamatory and published recklessly or with intentional malice. (references) |
Travel | Guyana | Minibuses are not recommended for business travelers, as they are generally overcrowded and tend to be driven recklessly. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Recklessly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Recklessly" is used about 175 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 175 | 23,506 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "recklessly": recklessly-made. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
helplessly hopelessly recklessly | 2 |
andrew helplessly hopelessly jessica lyrics recklessly | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "recklessly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 胡亂 (carelessly), 鲁莽地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nedbale (anyhow, carelessly, casually, negligently, offhandedly), lehkomyslnì (flippantly, heedlessly), bezhlavì (hastily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sejle hensynsloest (to proceed recklessly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | roekeloos varen (to proceed recklessly), onverantwoordelijk varen (to proceed recklessly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tuhlata rahaa turhuuksiin (spend money recklessly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | imprudemment. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unbekümmerte (insouciantly, mindlessly, unconcerned), unbekümmert (carefree, carelessly, easygoing, gaily, insouciant, lighthearted, lightheartedly, mindless, reckless, unconcerned, unconcernedly, unheeding, unworried). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πλέω ριψοκίνδυνα (to proceed recklessly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vakmerően (blindfold, boldly, headfirst). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 闇雲 (at random, blindly), 遮二無二 (desperately, rush headlong), 矢鱈に (blindly, randomly), 猥りに (arbitrarily, indiscriminately, unnecessarily, without authority, without reason), 無闇に (absurdly, at random, indiscreetly, unreasonably), 無二無三 (be completely absorbed in, desperately, in earnest), 無暗に (absurdly, at random, indiscreetly, unreasonably), 濫りに (arbitrarily, indiscriminately, unnecessarily, without authority, without reason), 八つあたりに (indiscriminately), 妄りに (arbitrarily, indiscriminately, unnecessarily, without authority, without reason). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゃにむに (desperately, rush headlong), むにむさ" (desperately), むやみに (absurdly, at random, indiscreetly, unreasonably), やたらに (blindly, randomly), やつあたりに (indiscriminately), やみくも (at random, blindly), み りに (arbitrarily, indiscriminately, unnecessarily, without authority, without reason). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecklesslyray orbeşte (automatically, blindfoldedly, blindly, haphazardly, mechanically, passionately, robot-like, unconsciously), nesãbuit (foolish, hare-brained, harum scarum, hell-bent, insensate, mad, rashly, reckless, wild), cu nepãsare (regardlessly), cu curaj (boldly). (various references) неосмотрительно (thoughtlessly). (various references) aturdidamente, atronadamente. (various references) umursamazca (listlessly), sakınmadan (without mincing matters), lakaytca, dikkatsizce (carelessly, inadvertently), düşünmeden (by rote, impulsively, irrespective of, lightly, out of hand, rashly, unintentionally, without thinking, without thought), çekinmeden (round, without hesitation, without reserve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Recklessly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: wrecklessly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "recklessly" (pronounced re"kluslē) |
| 5 | -l u s l ē | aimlessly, breathlessly, callously, carelessly, ceaselessly, effortlessly, endlessly, fabulously, flawlessly, frivolously, fruitlessly, harmlessly, helplessly, hopelessly, jealously, listlessly, marvelously, mercilessly, meticulously, mindlessly, miraculously, needlessly, painlessly, perilously, relentlessly, restlessly, ridiculously, ruthlessly, scrupulously, seamlessly, shamelessly, tirelessly, tremulously, zealously. |
| 4 | -u s l ē | ambitiously, anonymously, anxiously, assiduously, autonomously, capriciously, cautiously, conscientiously, consciously, conspicuously, contemporaneously, contemptuously, continuously, courageously, curiously, dangerously, deliciously, disastrously, egregiously, enormously, enviously, erroneously, expeditiously, facetiously, fallaciously, famously, ferociously, furiously, generously, gloriously, graciously, gratuitously, grievously, harmoniously, hellaciously, hideously, hilariously, horrendously, humorously, incongruously, indigenously, ingeniously, instantaneously, intravenously, judiciously, laboriously, ludicrously, maliciously, mysteriously, nervously, notoriously, obviously, ominously, ostentatiously, outrageously, piously, posthumously, precariously, precipitously, previously, prodigiously, purposely, religiously, righteously, rigorously, seriously, simultaneously, spontaneously, strenuously, studiously, subconsciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, synonymously, tediously, tenaciously, tremendously, unambiguously, unanimously, unceremoniously, unconsciously, variously, vicariously, viciously, vigorously, vociferously. |
| 3 | -s l ē | adversely, closely, concisely, conversely, densely, expressly, falsely, fiercely, grossly, immensely, intensely, inversely, loosely, nicely, parsley, perversely, precisely, princely, profusely, scarcely, sparsely, tensely, tersely, thusly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-k-l-l-r-s-s-y" | |
-2 letters: reckless. | |
-3 letters: clerkly, cresyls, kerseys, keyless, resells, sellers, sleekly, yellers. | |
-4 letters: celery, cleeks, clerks, creeks, creels, cresyl, cyeses, eskers, kersey, lesser, lycees, recess, rekeys, resell, screes, seller, selles, sleeks, sleeky, sycees, yeller. | |
-5 letters: cells, ceres, cleek, clerk, creek, creel, cress, erses, esker, eyers, eyres, keels, kelly, leeks, leers, leery, lycee, lyres, lyses, recks, reeks, reeky, reels, rekey, rykes, scree, seeks, seels, seely, seers, selle, sells, seres, skees, sleek, slyer, sycee, syces, sykes, yelks, yells, yerks, yeses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 63 6B 6C 65 73 73 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.-. -.- .-.. . ... ... .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100011 01101011 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e c k l e s s l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0063 006B 006C 0065 0073 0073 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52716977787185857891 |
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