Crossword clues for foolhardy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foolhardy \Fool"har`dy\, a. [OF. folhardi. See Fool idiot, and
Hardy.]
Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold.
--Howell.
Syn: Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Marked by unthinking recklessness with disregard for danger; bold but rash; hotheaded
WordNet
adj. marked by unthinking boldness; with defiant disregard for danger or consequences; "foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker"; "became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans"-Macaulay; "a reckless driver"; "a rash attempt to climb the World Trade Center" [syn: rash, reckless]
[also: foolhardiest, foolhardier]
Usage examples of "foolhardy".
In response to his gesture, eyes now fully formed and ablaze, the two clouds of sooty vapor that had been hovering impatiently by his steel-booted feet ballooned to the size of black buffalo as they sped gleefully away from the dais to intercept the impudent, foolhardy human.
Even in those years, only the most foolhardy explorers poked themselves over the altiplano rim of the bowl.
After his alarming experience with the beisa oryx, the Count was not eager to take foolhardy risks.
While Hotspur is engaged in foolhardy but romantic knight-errantry, Prince Hal is whiling away his time in a tavern in Eastcheap.
I felt sorry afterwards, for it was the sort of ridiculous, foolhardy thing that Gowing or Lupin would have done.
The Fair Realm was and remains a perilous land, aye, and in it were snares for the unwatchful and prison towers for the foolhardy, but it was far-reaching and unfathomed and lofty and filled with many things: all kinds of birds and beasts, shoreless oceans and stars beyond measure, beauty that is spellbinding and dangerous, gramarye both rich and strange, joyousness and sorrow as piercing as any Dainnan blade.
The Wandle mud would entrap any stranger who was foolhardy enough to wade across without guidance.
Indeed, to return to Camelot while Morgen was angry at him could even be construed as foolhardy.
Of course I understand how important it must be to you to establish your own mark on the business, to prove yourself, so to speak, but the acquisition of this hotel chain really was quite foolhardy, as is this decision of yours to keep on all the existing staff.
She did not press the matter, reflecting that it might indeed be unwise, not to say foolhardy, to leave the choice of lodgings to his uninstructed judgment.
Bermondsey and Rotherhithe knew the riverside area as a rough place of drab streets and large factories and wharves, where the hard life and the often dangerous pubs near the Thames attracted only the most foolhardy and reckless of strangers.
Rushing two battleships into a night action against Kurita was foolhardy, perhaps fully as bullheaded as his run after Ozawa.
His Bushmaster Auto Rifle apparently empty, he was using it as a club, swinging it by the barrel, the stock smashing into any trooper foolhardy enough to come within range of his muscular arms.
Sometimes some foolhardy men have declared that they will go where they like in spite of the Fenmen, and they have gone, but they have never returned.
Friends and sycophants were gathering round the governor of Lapan, addressing him with the half-congratulatory and half-envious admiration usually shown by people towards a man who has done something which, though they may consider it reckless and foolhardy, they cannot help wishing they had had the gall to do themselves.