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"
Usage examples
Then he lost courage, and became careless and reckless.
His eyes danced and glittered with a kind of reckless mockery.
Beyond he had continued his career; rapid and reckless as ever.
Something indescribably reckless and desperate in such a picture
The young man threw himself upon the bench with a reckless laugh.
In moral courage I am either reckless or courageous, I do not know which.
JULY 24.-Clara Ray says the girls think me reckless and imprudent in speech.
I like such reckless fellows as you," she lisped, with a rather halting tongue.
But reckless Rafe was considered, for his age, a very smart hand on a log drive.
As spring approached, the starving multitude on Isle St. Joseph grew reckless with hunger.