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recklessly

recklessly adverb: in a rash or reckless manner, without regard for cost or consequence.

Adverb

recklessly (comparative more recklessly, superlative most recklessly)

  1. In a rash or reckless manner, without regard for cost or consequence
    • Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn...1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans...
    • Zoe popped her head up to watch in terror through a little window, as they spread chaos and carnage in their wake, not to mention quite a few broken-off wing mirrors. Burt was driving so recklessly, she was frightened he would kill them both.2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN
  2. With contempt for the rights, feelings, or well-being of others.

recklessly meaning in Hindi and Urdu

recklessly in Hindi

recklessly
बेतहाशा betahāśā

recklessly in Urdu

recklessly
بے تحاشا be-tahāśā

Forms of recklessly

comparativemore recklessly
superlativemost recklessly

Origin of recklessly

From Middle English reklesly, from Old English rēcelēaslīce; equivalent to reckless + -ly.

Questions about recklessly

What does recklessly mean?
Recklessly means in a rash or reckless manner, without regard for cost or consequence.
What is recklessly in Hindi?
Recklessly in Hindi is बेतहाशा (betahāśā). See Recklessly meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is recklessly?
Recklessly is an adverb.

Words near recklessly in the dictionary

  1. Reckitt
  2. reckless
  3. reckless endangerment
  4. recklesser
  5. recklessest
  6. recklessly
  7. recklessness
  8. recklessnesses
  9. reckling
  10. recklings
  11. Reckner

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: recklessly (page history and authors); बेतहाशा (Hindi) (page history and authors); بے تحاشا (Urdu) (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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