showing a lack of care about danger and the possible results of your actions:
He showed a reckless disregard for his own safety. * She was a good rider, but reckless. * He had always been reckless with money. * (BrE) to cause death by reckless driving
recklessly adverb:
He admitted driving recklessly. * She had fallen hopelessly and recklessly in love.
recklessness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for reckless is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is reckless a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, reckless is tagged as adjective.
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