Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: rash
IPA transcription: [ɹ'æʃ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: foolhardy, heady, rash, reckless
    Meaning: marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences; "foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker"; "became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans"-Macaulay; "a reckless driver"; "a rash attempt to climb Mount Everest"
  • Synonyms: rash
    Meaning: imprudently incurring risk; "do something rash that he will forever repent"- George Meredith
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: rash, blizzard
    Meaning: a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences; "a rash of bank robberies"; "a blizzard of lawsuits"
  • Synonyms: rash, roseola, efflorescence, skin_rash
    Meaning: any red eruption of the skin
Usage examples
  • Rash Advances
  • "Now don't be rash.
  • And it WAS a rash and foolish act.
  • 'And I do hope Arthur--nothing rash!'
  • "That was rash," said the master of Harrowby.
  • "Don't be rash or foolish; let the law take its course."
  • "In his rash exertions to rescue a favorite portion of his hunting stud, he has himself perished miserably in the flames."
  • "Yes, you would be," said Miss Berengaria ironically, and she might have been rash enough to say more, but that Durham intervened.
  • Darrell, powerless to aid his friend, watched intently, dreading some rash act on his part to which his impetuous nature might prompt him.
  • At that Idas the rash would have struck them; but Jason held him back, till one of the merchant kings spoke to them, a tall and stately man.