temerarious
/tɛməˈɹɛəɹi.əs/
temerarious adjective: characterized by temerity; recklessly daring or bold.
Adjective
temerarious (comparative more temerarious, superlative most temerarious)
- Characterized by temerity; recklessly daring or bold.
- […] he furthwith by thinſtinct of yͤ ſpirite of god, in repꝛoche of all ſuch temerarious bold & blind iudgement, geuē vpon a mā whoſe inward mind and ſodain change they cannot ſee, ſhoꝛtly proued thē al deceiued, […]1534 (date written; published 1553), Thomas More, “A Dyalogue of Comforte agaynste Tribulacyon, […]. Chapter XVII.”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More...
- To look back upon the past year, and see how little we have striven and to what small purpose; and how often we have been cowardly and hung back, or temerarious and rushed unwisely in; and how every day and all day long we have transgressed the law of kindness;—it may seem a paradox, but in the...1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, “A Christmas Sermon”, in Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays, London: Chatto & Windus, […], published 1892, →OCLC, part IV, pages 314–315
- Antonyms:
- timorous
Examples of temerarious in a sentence
- I believe that in this way most temerarious deeds are done; the doer has become insensible to danger, and his imagination is clouded with some engrossing purpose.1910, John Buchan, “A Great Peril and A Great Salvation”, in Prester John, London; Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, →OCLC, page 361:
- Primarily and supremely man is always the pioneer of life, adventuring onward into the unknown, alone with his own temerarious, dauntless soul.1922, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “The Birth of Sex”, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 152:
Synonyms of temerarious
Antonyms
Forms of temerarious
| comparative | more temerarious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most temerarious |
Origin of temerarious
Learned borrowing from Latin temerārius (“accidental, casual, rash, reckless”), from temerē (“by chance, at random, rashly”).
Words formed from temerarious
Words that rhyme with temerarious
- cibarious
- scarious
- Stradivarius
- tartareous
- vagarious
- vicarious
- Aquarius
- atrabilarious
- calcareous
- contrarious
- hilarious
- lampadarius
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- librarius
- malarious
- multifarious
- omnifarious
- precarious
- riparious
- testudinarious
- various
- acinarious
- adversarious
- anticarious
- apocrisarius
- apocrisiarius
- arbitrarious
- arenarious
- argillocalcareous
- armarius
- assarius
- atramentarious
- Belisarius
- bordarius
- burglarious
- caeremoniarius
- calcarious
- carious
- confessarius
- corneo-calcareous
- cotarius
- duplicarius
- filarious
- fimetarious
- frumentarious
- glareous
- howlarious
- lapidarious
- librarious
- multivarious
- nectareous
- nectarious
- nefarious
- nightmarious
- noncalcareous
- noncarious
- nongregarious
- nonmalarious
- nonvicarious
- octarius
- octofarious
Questions about temerarious
- What does temerarious mean?
- Temerarious means characterized by temerity; recklessly daring or bold.
- How do you use temerarious in a sentence?
- I believe that in this way most temerarious deeds are done; the doer has become insensible to danger, and his imagination is clouded with some engrossing purpose.
- What part of speech is temerarious?
- Temerarious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce temerarious?
- Temerarious is pronounced /tɛməˈɹɛəɹi.əs/.
Words near temerarious in the dictionary
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