The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incautious \In*cau"tious\, a. [Pref. in- not + cautious: cf. L. incautus.] Not cautious; not circumspect; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; heedless; careless; as, an incautious step; an incautious remark.
You . . . incautious tread
On fire with faithless embers overspread.
--Francis.
His rhetorical expressions may easily captivate any
incautious reader.
--Keill.
Syn: Unwary; indiscreet; inconsiderate; imprudent; impolitic; careless; heedless; thoughtless. -- In*cau"tious*ly, adv. -- In*cau"tious*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In an incautious manner; with a lack of caution.
WordNet
adv. without caution or prudence; "one unfortunately sees historic features carelessly lost when estates fall into unsympathetic hands" [syn: carelessly] [ant: cautiously, cautiously]
Usage examples of "incautiously".
As he retreated, Gering felt, as he broke ground, that he was nearing the wall, and, even as he parried, incautiously threw a halfglance over his shoulder to see how near.
Gray Mahatma stirred the beast with his toe and drove him away as carelessly and incautiously as you might shove your favorite dog aside!
For Nort received a nasty, but not dangerous wound in the left leg, while Dick, incautiously looking from behind his rock, to see the effect of one of his shots, felt a bullet clip the lobe of his right ear, bringing pain and plenty of blood.
Having once been incautiously taken into church by his nurse, to see a female friend of hers married, Zack had, the very next day, insisted on solemnizing the nuptial ceremony from recollection, before a bride and bridegroom of his own age, selected from his playfellows in the garden of the square.
She instantly balanced matters between herself and the incautiously smiling Liz and the laughing unfilial Ned.
The matter was one of the nicest delicacy--not to be undertaken lightly--not to be urged incautiously.
Jett, returning to visit briefly in the evening, wore an anti-infection surgical mask and, having incautiously asked what she could do for me, made a face at the length of my list.
Jett, returning to visit briefly in the evening, wore an anti-infection surgical mask, and having incautiously asked what she could do for me, made a face at the length of my list.
As with many others, the sun-drenched coral islands of the Pacific had formed a staple part of my earlier reading diet, but when I incautiously sat down to take the weight off my feet and stock of the situation my youthful enthusiasms vanished pretty rapidly.
In the garden Lord Emsworth, garden fork in hand, was dealing summarily with a green young weed that had incautiously shown its head in the middle of a flower bed.
Flick was looking pretty bad: both his eyes were blackened now, for, as his footwoman had promised, one more raving mention of Hightee Heller would collide with her fist and Flick had incautiously raved anew about Hightee Heller.
The quick eyes of the Mohicans caught the dark line of his lower limbs incautiously exposed through the thin foliage, a few inches from the trunk of the tree.
I happen to know that Cawler was your messenger, because he incautiously showed himself on the balcony of a Cape Town hotel and was snapped by a press photographer.
Incautiously, he had given the traffic court a bit of lip and they'd doubled his fine.