incircumspect

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adjective

Not circumspect; careless, reckless.

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Meanings

adjectiveincircumspect (comparative more incircumspect, superlative most incircumspect)

comparative more incircumspect · superlative most incircumspect

  1. Not circumspect; careless, reckless.

    Our fashions of eating make us slothful, and unlusty to labour and study; unstable, inconstant, and light-mannered; full of wits, after-witted (as we call it), incircumspect, inconsiderate, heady, rash, and hasty to begin unadvisedly, […]

    1532 (reprinted 1573), William Tyndale, “An Exposition uppon the V. VI. VII. Chapters of Mathew, […]. The Sixth Chapter.”, in Henry Walter, editor, Expositions and Notes on Sundry Portions of the Holy Scriptures, together with The Practice of Prelates. […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] The University Press, published 1849, →OCLC, page 93

Origin

From in- + circumspect.

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