incautious

[US]/ɪn'kɔːʃəs/
[UK]/ɪn'kɔʃəs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. lacking caution

Example Sentences

he blames incautious borrowing during the boom.

It was an incautious decision to invest all his savings in one risky stock.

She regretted her incautious words as soon as they left her mouth.

His incautious behavior led to a serious accident.

The incautious driver caused a traffic jam on the highway.

Being incautious with your personal information online can lead to identity theft.

The incautious hiker wandered off the trail and got lost in the forest.

She made an incautious promise without thinking about the consequences.

An incautious response to the email led to a security breach.

The incautious handling of chemicals resulted in a laboratory accident.

Incautious driving in bad weather conditions can be dangerous.

Real-world Examples

The footpaths were all firm, and led to no places of danger, nor are infants themselves incautious when alone in then pastimes.

Source: American Original Language Arts Volume 5

'The innocent are so very incautious.

Source: Magician

Palgrave was always extreme; his language was incautious — violent!

Source: The Education of Henry Adams (Part Two)

'O I am lost! ' said Viviette, seizing his arm. 'Why was I so incautious'?

Source: Lovers in the Tower (Part Two)

It's because at thirty, we couldn't understand how our romantic tastes had been formed by our family histories that we embarked on an incautious relationship that spoilt multiple lives.

Source: The school of life

Whatever was morbid in his mind and experience she ignored; and thereby kept their intercourse healthy, by the incautious, but, as it were, heaven-directed freedom of her whole conduct.

Source: Seven-angled Tower (Part 1)

We become properly moral, and properly adult, when we understand that we may all, whoever we may be, ruin someone's day, and on occasion, through a few incautious and misplaced words, their life.

Source: Daily English Listening | Bilingual Intensive Reading July 2023 Collection

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