rashly
rashly adverb: in a rash manner; hastily or without due consideration; with precipitation.
Adverb
rashly (comparative more rashly, superlative most rashly)
- In a rash manner; hastily or without due consideration; with precipitation.
- Now if it ſo be that it woulde happely be thought not a thyng metely to be aduentured to ſet all on a fluſhe at ones, and daſhe raſhelye out holye ſcrypture in euerye lewde felowes teeth: […]1528, Thomas More, “A Dialogue Concernynge Heresyes & Matters of Religion […]. The .16. Chapiter. The Messẽger Rehearseth Some Causes Which He Hath Herd Laid by Some of yͤ Clergie: […].”, in Wyllyam...
- Alas Wat, I haue kild the kings officer in ſtriking raſhly.1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act I
- Synonyms:
- rash
rashly meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
rashly in Hindi
- rashly
- बेतहाशा betahāśā
rashly in Tamil
- நேர்ந்தபடி
rashly in Urdu
- in a rash manner
- بے تحاشا be-tahāśā
rashly in Bengali
- in a rash manner
- অন্ধভাবে ôndhôbhabe
More languagesFewer languages
- rashly in Malayalam
- സാഹസികമായി
- rashly in Kannada
- ಅಡಬಡ
Examples of rashly in a sentence
- VVhy do you ſpeake ſo ſtartingly and raſhly.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas]...
- [H]e'll say that we're contradicting what was said just now when we rashly maintain that there are falsehoods in judgements and statements.2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, 241a:
Synonyms of rashly
Forms of rashly
| comparative | more rashly |
|---|---|
| superlative | most rashly |
Origin of rashly
From rash + -ly.
Questions about rashly
- What does rashly mean?
- Rashly means in a rash manner; hastily or without due consideration; with precipitation.
- What is rashly in Hindi?
- Rashly in Hindi is बेतहाशा (betahāśā). See Rashly meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use rashly in a sentence?
- VVhy do you ſpeake ſo ſtartingly and raſhly.
- What part of speech is rashly?
- Rashly is an adverb.
Words near rashly in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rashly (page history and authors); बेतहाशा (Hindi) (page history and authors); rashly (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rashly (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rashly (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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