temerarious

adjective

ˌte-mə-ˈrer-ē-əs How to pronounce temerarious (audio)
Definition of temerariousnext
as in reckless
foolishly adventurous or bold temerarious people rush in without forethought

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for temerarious
  1. reckless
  2. courageous
  3. brave
  4. daredevil
  5. adventurous
  6. foolhardy
  7. heroic
  8. daring
Adjective
  • He was arrested a short time later and charged with second-degree assault, second-degree reckless endangerment, second-degree breach of peace and two counts of risk of injury to a minor.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 14 Jan. 2025
  • He was arrested without incident and faces charges of two counts of risk of injury to a minor, breach of peace, assault and reckless endangerment.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of reckless
Adjective
  • The Democratic budget was moved from the House to the Senate, which allowed four courageous Democratic senators who recognized the historic moment for structural budgetary changes.
    Len Fasano, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Joshua Zeman’s documentary chronicles the courageous efforts to save them, first from starvation, then via transport to new homes.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of courageous
Adjective
  • The streets here are steep, as in San Francisco-steep—so precipitous that brave locals (or crazy, some might say) hurtle down them in homemade bobsleds every January.
    Cassidy Randall, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Benjamin Franklin was not only a political thinker but a scientist and a brave advocate of smallpox inoculation.
    Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of brave
Adjective
  • Due to his high-flying, daredevil move set and unique presentation, Hardy became one of the most popular WWE Superstars of the 2000s.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
  • In 1910, a quarter of a million people had spent 10 days swooning over the Los Angeles International Aviation Meet — the nation’s first daredevil airshow.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of daredevil
Adjective
  • Kylie Kangaroo Kylie is an adventurous kangaroo from Australia.
    Elisa Cinelli, Parents, 16 Jan. 2025
  • At such a young age, there is still massive scope for Reis to improve; from bulking up and becoming sturdier in the shoulder-to-shoulder duels to rediscovering his adventurous distribution at the highest level of the game.
    Thom Harris, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
Definition of adventurous
Adjective
  • This two-year mission was a foolhardy act of imagination that has utterly changed the music world, one that only Taylor Swift could have envisioned.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2024
  • What if the Jedi’s whole understanding of the Force in the prequel trilogy is misguided, going hand in hand with their ultimately foolhardy obsession with science and order in those films?
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 12 June 2024
Definition of foolhardy
Adjective
  • Lupita rules as the teacher and the only one who knows how to act heroic in the moment.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The murder of six million Jews—and the question of whether the British authorities could have done more to save them—complicates an otherwise ennobling story of the country’s heroic stand against Nazism, its finest hour.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of heroic
Adjective
  • Quick aside: Notre Dame with its gaudy, preposterously shiny gold helmets forfeited the OB’s Best Headgear trophy to Penn State’s plain white helmets, the most daring flair of understatement since Andy Warhol painted a tomato soup can and called it art.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Judy Reyes stars as a nurse whose daughter dies at the age of five, only to be brought back to life by a morgue technician (an unforgettable Marin Ireland) who has been experimenting with a daring new process.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of daring
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