From Middle English rekles, reckeles, rekkeles, (also recheles), from Old English rēcelēas (“reckless, careless, negligent”), equivalent to reck + -less. Cognate with West Frisian roekeleas (“reckless”), Dutch roekeloos (“reckless”), German Low German ruuklos (“careless”), German ruchlos (“careless, notorious”).
reckless (comparative recklesser or more reckless, superlative recklessest or most reckless)
- Careless or heedless; headstrong or rash.
- Indifferent or oblivious to danger or the consequences thereof.
2018 July 25, A. A. Dowd, “Fallout may be the Most Breathlessly Intense Mission: Impossible Adventure Yet”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 31 July 2018:Escalation is the film’s nuclear energy source. It’s there, of course, in the downright lunatic stunts performed by [Tom] Cruise, again defying good sense and his own advancing years to top his previous feats of reckless self-endangerment.
careless or heedless; headstrong or rash
- Arabic: مُتَهَوِّر (mutahawwir)
- Armenian: անխոհեմ (hy) (anxohem), անշրջահայաց (hy) (anšrǰahayacʻ)
- Belarusian: неразва́жны (njerazvážny), безразва́жны (bjezrazvážny), бязглу́зды (bjazhlúzdy), шалёны (šaljóny), легкаду́мны (ljehkadúmny)
- Bulgarian: безразсъ́ден (bg) (bezrazsǎ́den), необми́слен (bg) (neobmíslen)
- Catalan: imprudent
- Cherokee: ᏄᏁᎸᎾ (nunelvna)
- Chinese:
- Hokkien: 魯莽/鲁莽 (ló͘-bóng)
- Mandarin: 魯莽/鲁莽 (zh) (lǔmǎng), 愣頭愣腦/愣头愣脑 (zh) (lèngtóulèngnǎo), 毛頭毛腦/毛头毛脑 (zh) (máotóumáonǎo)
- Czech: bezohledný (cs), bezstarostný, lehkomyslný (cs)
- Danish: skødesløs, ubetænksom
- Dutch: roekeloos (nl)
- Esperanto: temerara
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: harkitsematon (fi), holtiton (fi)
- French: irresponsable (fr), insouciant (fr)
- Galician: imprudente (gl)
- Georgian: წინდაუხედავი (c̣indauxedavi), თავზეხელაღებული (tavzexelaɣebuli), დაუდევარი (daudevari), გაუფრთხილებელი (gauprtxilebeli)
- German: waghalsig (de), unverantwortlich (de), unbekümmert (de), leichtsinnig (de), leichtfertig (de)
- Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐍄𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌻𐍃𐌺𐍃 (untilamalsks)
- Greek: απερίσκεπτος (el) (aperískeptos)
- Ancient: ἰταμός (itamós), προπετής (propetḗs)
- Hebrew: רַשְׁלָן m (rashlán)
- Hungarian: vakmerő (hu)
- Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
- Ido: temerara (io)
- Indonesian: sembrono (id)
- Irish: ráscánta, meargánta, neamhchúramach
- Italian: avventato (it)
- Japanese: 無謀 (ja) (むぼう, mubō), 無知 (ja) (むち, muchi)
- Khmer: (please verify) មិនប្រយ័ត្នប្រយែង (mɨn prɑyat prɑyɛɛŋ)
- Korean: 무모하다 (mumohada)
- Latin: incautus
- Latvian: neapdomīgs, pārsteidzīgs
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: безра́суден (bezrásuden), нео́бмислен (neóbmislen)
- Maori: totoa
- Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: hensynsløs
- Occitan: irresponsable, imprudent
- Old Norse: órǿkinn, ósvífr
- Plautdietsch: onbekjemmat
- Polish: lekkomyślny (pl), nierozważny (pl)
- Portuguese: imprudente (pt)
- Romanian: nesăbuit (ro), nechibzuit (ro), imprudent (ro)
- Russian: безрассу́дный (ru) (bezrassúdnyj), опроме́тчивый (ru) (oprométčivyj), бесшаба́шный (ru) (besšabášnyj), безу́мный (ru) (bezúmnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: coma
- Slovak: bezohľadný, bezstarostný, ľahkomyseľný, ľahkovážny
- Slovene: nepazljiv, lahkomiseln, nepremišljen
- Spanish: imprudente (es), temerario (es)
- Swedish: obetänksam (sv)
- Turkish: umursamaz (tr), kayıtsız (tr), ihtiyatsız (tr)
- Ukrainian: безрозсу́дний (uk) (bezrozsúdnyj), нерозсу́дливий (nerozsúdlyvyj), нерозва́жний (nerozvážnyj), необа́чний (neobáčnyj), безглу́здий (uk) (bezhlúzdyj), легкоду́мний (lehkodúmnyj)
- Vietnamese: bất cẩn
- Volapük: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: anystyriol (cy), di-hid (cy), rhyfygus (cy)
- Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
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indifferent to danger or the consequences
- Armenian: անհոգ (hy) (anhog), անփույթ (hy) (anpʻuytʻ), անպատասխանատու (hy) (anpatasxanatu), թեթեւամիտ (hy) (tʻetʻewamit)
- Bulgarian: дързък (bg) (dǎrzǎk), безразсъден (bg) (bezrazsǎden)
- Catalan: temerari (ca)
- Czech: bezstarostný, lehkomyslný (cs)
- Danish: letsindig
- Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: roekeloos (nl)
- Finnish: huimapäinen, rämäpäinen, uhkarohkea (fi), hurjapäinen, huima, yltiöpäinen
- Franco-Provençal: tèmèrèro
- French: téméraire (fr), branque (fr)
- Galician: arriscado (gl), temerario, destemido
- Georgian: თავზეხელაღებული (tavzexelaɣebuli), დაუდევარი (daudevari)
- German: rücksichtslos (de), waghalsig (de), verwegen (de), halsbrecherisch (de)
- Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐍄𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌻𐍃𐌺𐍃 (untilamalsks)
- Greek: απερίσκεπτος (el) (aperískeptos)
- Ancient: ῥιψοκίνδυνος (rhipsokíndunos)
- Ido: please add this translation if you can
- Indonesian: gegabah (id)
- Italian: spericolato (it)
- Khmer: (please verify) ដែលមិនប្រយ័ត្ន (dael mɨn prɑyat)
- Latin: incautus
- Macedonian: безо́бѕирен (bezóbdziren), безра́суден (bezrásuden), леко́мислен (lekómislen)
- Maori: totoa, pokerenoa, nanakia, raukeke
- Occitan: temerari
- Polish: lekkomyślny (pl), zawadiacki (pl)
- Portuguese: temerário (pt)
- Russian: беспе́чный (ru) (bespéčnyj), легкомы́сленный (ru) (lexkomýslennyj), безотве́тственный (ru) (bezotvétstvennyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: coma
- Spanish: temerario (es), desconsiderado (es), imprudente (es)
- Swedish: vårdslös (sv), lättsinnig (sv)
- Turkish: korkusuz (tr), pervasız (tr)
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