Etymology

retchless

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Today it means: careless; reckless Full definition →

Middle English recche
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The story

  1. Middle English · derived fromrecche“care, heed”
  2. English todayretchless

From Middle English recche (“care, heed”) + -less. Compare English reckless.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.