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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Heedless or careless.
  2. adj. Headstrong; rash.
  3. adj. Indifferent to or disregardful of consequences: a reckless driver.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Not recking; careless; heedless; inattentive: in a mild sense.
  2. Not recking of consequences; desperately heedless, as from folly, passion, or perversity; impetuously or rashly adventurous.
  3. Synonyms Enterprising, Rash, etc. (see adventurous), incautious, unwary, unconcerned, indifferent, thoughtless. See list under rash.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Careless or heedless; headstrong or rash.
  2. adj. Indifferent to danger or the consequences.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent.
  2. adj. Rashly negligent; utterly careless or heedless.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences
  2. adj. characterized by careless unconcern

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English rekles, reckeles, from Old English rēcelēas ("reckless, careless, negligent"), equivalent to reck +‎ -less. Cognate with Dutch roekeloos ("reckless"), German ruchlos ("careless, notorious"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English reckeles, from Old English rēcelēas; see reg- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • aykutkaraalioglu opposite of calculated Jul 20, 2012

  • yarb Cool. Thanks cb. Nov 24, 2007

  • chained_bear From Online Etymology: O.E. receleas "careless, thoughtless, heedless," earlier reccileas, from -leas "-less" + *rece, recce "care, heed," from reccan "to care," from W.Gmc. *rokijanan (cf. O.N. rækja "to care for," O.H.G. giruochan "to care for, have regard to," Ger. geruhen "to deign," which is infl. by ruhen "to rest"). No known cognates outside Gmc. The same affixed form is in Ger. ruchlos, Du. roekeloos "wicked." Root verb reck (O.E. reccan) is passing into obscurity. The -k- sound is probably a northern influence from O.N. cognate roekja.

    Don't know what half of that means, but the other half is pretty interesting. :) Nov 24, 2007

  • yarb What is the reck in this word? Is it like recognition, or reckoning? Is it a fossil noun meaning caution? Nov 24, 2007

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