incautiously
incautiously adverb: in an incautious manner; with a lack of caution.
Adverb
incautiously (comparative more incautiously, superlative most incautiously)
- In an incautious manner; with a lack of caution.
- His behaviour to herself could now have had no tolerable motive; he had either been deceived with regard to her fortune, or had been gratifying his vanity by encouraging the preference which she believed she had most incautiously shewn.1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 13, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC
- […] the piranhas habitually attack things much larger than themselves. They will snap a finger off a hand incautiously trailed in the water […]1914, Theodore Roosevelt, “Chapter 2”, in Through the Brazilian Wilderness, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 41
Antonyms of incautiously
Forms of incautiously
| comparative | more incautiously |
|---|---|
| superlative | most incautiously |
Origin of incautiously
From incautious + -ly.
Questions about incautiously
- What does incautiously mean?
- Incautiously means in an incautious manner; with a lack of caution.
- What part of speech is incautiously?
- Incautiously is an adverb.
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