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rashful

rashful adjective: rash; hasty, precipitate.

Adjective

rashful (comparative more rashful, superlative most rashful)

  1. (archaic) Rash; hasty, precipitate.
    • “[…] I told him that I had the power, if he refused to do so, to make him a beggar; but I should not have carried out my threats. The young man, however, had fallen in love with Miss Denman, and, in a moment of rashful impulse, he quitted Nantucket, and I heard nothing more of him, until a few days...1857, James A. Maitland, The Cousins: Or, The Captain's Ward, New York: Evert D. Long, pages 381–382

Forms of rashful

comparativemore rashful
superlativemost rashful

Origin of rashful

From rash (“hasty, impulsive”) + -ful.

Questions about rashful

What does rashful mean?
Rashful means rash; hasty, precipitate.
What part of speech is rashful?
Rashful is an adjective.

Words near rashful in the dictionary

  1. rashers
  2. rashes
  3. rashes up
  4. rashest
  5. Rashford
  6. rashful
  7. rashguard
  8. rashguards
  9. rashi
  10. Rashid
  11. Rashid Caliphate

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