Adjective: reckless
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | recklesser |
| Superlative | recklessest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more reckless |
| Superlative | most reckless |
Sample Sentences
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Escalation is the film’s nuclear energy source. It’s there, of course, in the downright lunatic stunts performed by [Tom] Cruise, again defying good sense and his own advancing years to top his previous feats of reckless self-endangerment. [2018 July 25, A. A. Dowd, “Fallout may be the Most Breathlessly Intense Mission: Impossible Adventure Yet”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2018:]
Adjectives inflected like reckless
wholsom,
seldom,
scared,
solemn,
silent,
beloved,
uptight,
perfect,
useless,
up-tight,
selfish,
distinct,
discreet,
Dutch,
reckless,
bumfuck,
worthless,
slender,
faithfull,
shallow, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *rōkijaną
3. Proto-West Germanic *rōkijan
4. Old English rēċan
5. Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
6. Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
7. Proto-Germanic *leusaną
8. Proto-Germanic *lausaz
9. Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
10. Proto-West Germanic *-laus
11. Old English -lēas
12. Old English rēċelēas
13. Middle English rekles
14. English reckless
15. From Middle English rekles, reckeles, rekkeles, (also recheles), from Old English rēcelēas (“reckless, careless, negligent”), equivalent to reck + -less. Cognate with West Frisian roekeleas (“reckless”), Dutch roekeloos (“reckless”), German Low German ruuklos (“careless”), German ruchlos (“careless, notorious”). See: Dutch Adjectives '
roekeloos', German Adjectives '
ruchlos'.
Verbs referencing "reckless"
German Adjectives
ruchlos, Dutch Adjectives
roekeloos, English Adjectives
retchless.