Read full poem →There are too many things to detain me,
But the force behind is reckless.
Dictionary Entry
Acting without thinking about danger or consequences; careless and imprudent.
In a Sentence
“The reckless driver sped through the red light, endangering everyone on the road.”
Origin
Middle English, from "reck" (care) + "-less" meaning without care.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “reckless”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And calls me much the wittiest there!
With reckless loyalty, dear Wife,
She lays herself about my life!
Read full poem →Through Edgecumb Park the rooted trees
Are tossing, reckless, in the breeze;
On top of Edgecumb's firm-set tower,
Read full poem →The joy of body, mind, and heart;
The love that grew a reckless growth,
Unmindful that the marriage-oath
Read full poem →written. In general, the ascription of a piece to Chaucer in a MS. is
valuable. But the scribe of this particular MS. was reckless. It is he who
made the mistake of marking Hoccleve's 'Mother of God' with the misleading
Read full poem →There are too many things to detain me,
But the force behind is reckless.
Read full poem →I shall set forth for somewhere,
I shall make the reckless choice
Some day when they are in voice
Read full poem →"Oh, let's go up the hill and scare ourselves,
As reckless as the best of them to-night,
By setting fire to all the brush we piled
Read full poem →I shall set forth for somewhere,
I shall make the reckless choice
Some day when they are in voice
Read full poem →These forces are obliged to pay respect to?"
So Brad McLaughlin mingled reckless talk
Of heavenly stars with hugger-mugger farming,