incautious
Lacking due care
Incautious means not careful or wary—acting without sufficient thought about potential consequences.
An incautious remark might offend someone; an incautious investor might lose money.
The word suggests a failure to exercise prudence rather than deliberate recklessness: In an incautious moment, she revealed the surprise.
Inattentive, prone to mistakes
- negligentFailing in due care
- thoughtlessShowing no consideration
- unwaryWithout due caution
- unmindfulLacking awareness or attention
oblivious · inattentive · unthinking · unobservant · unconcerned · inadvertent · imprudent · unreflective
Recklessly bold
- daredevilReckless risk-taker
- audaciousRecklessly or disrespectfully fearless
- brazenShamelessly bold
- irresponsibleLacking sense of duty
devil-may-care · madcap · harebrained · wild · overconfident · heedless · thrill-seeking · risk-taking
Heedless or skin irritation
- impetuousActing on sudden urge
- hastyExcessively quick, ill-considered
- spontaneousArising without external cause
- unplannedNot arranged beforehand
unpremeditated · precipitate · snap · spur-of-the-moment · knee-jerk · headlong · instinctive · whimsical
careless
Inattentive, prone to mistakes
- negligentFailing in due care
- thoughtlessShowing no consideration
- unwaryWithout due caution
unmindful · oblivious · inattentive · unthinking · unobservant · unconcerned · inadvertent · imprudent · unreflective · unwatchful
foolhardy
Recklessly bold
irresponsible · devil-may-care · madcap · harebrained · wild · overconfident · heedless · thrill-seeking · risk-taking · bold
rash
Heedless or skin irritation
- impetuousActing on sudden urge
- hastyExcessively quick, ill-considered
- spontaneousArising without external cause
unplanned · unpremeditated · precipitate · snap · spur-of-the-moment · knee-jerk · headlong · instinctive · whimsical · capricious
- recklessreckless, careless, rash, heedless, imprudent
- thoughtlessthoughtless, unthinking, mindless, unreflective, unconsidered
- foolishfoolish, stupid, dumb, brainless, witless
- shortsightedmyopic, imprudent, ill-considered, narrow-minded, blinkered