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
  • Coy was found guilty by a jury on all three counts: murder, reckless homicide and felonious assault.
    Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Coy, who was removed from his position in the Columbus Police Department shortly after the incident, faced charges of murder, reckless homicide and other offenses in which he was found guilty on Monday.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of reckless
Adjective
  • These were just those courageous enough to answer truthfully.
    Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Erika Sanders of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council hopes the center will force stakeholders and policymakers to ask tough questions that may be uncomfortable but courageous.
    La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of courageous
Adjective
  • Incredibly the only sitcom on this list, NBC’s Powerless was a brave, brief foray into what still is wildly uncharted territory in cape comic TV shows.
    Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Unlike the crime thriller elements that are just OK, there’s energy, urgency and a convincing naturalism when the focus is on Yan and Sister taking brave and sometimes dangerous steps to reclaim their right to self-determination.
    Richard Kuipers, Variety, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of brave
Adjective
  • 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
  • Planes were first introduced into combat service during World War I, and the pioneering pilots who manned them became masters of the air, deploying daredevil maneuvers to outwit the enemy.
    Kinsey Gidick, Southern Living, 16 Oct. 2024
Definition of daredevil
Adjective
  • For those not so adventurous, take a commercial flight into Newark Airport in New Jersey.
    Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 5 Nov. 2024
  • After a great summer in the box office following its 15-year anniversary re-release, the adventurous little girl returned to theaters on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1.
    Emiliana Betancourt, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of adventurous
Adjective
  • Overshadowing the endorsement was a foolhardy rhetorical flourish that insulted key voting blocs courted by the Republican nominee in his campaign against the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Grover Cleveland.
    Robert B. Mitchell / Made by History, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
  • An empathy gap is obvious in online commenters who suggest, for example, that flood victims earned their fate through the foolhardy choice to live near water, that earthquake victims shouldn’t have lived near fault lines, and so on.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
Definition of foolhardy
Adjective
  • Election officials did a heroic job this year, said Pamela Smith, president and CEO of Verified Voting, a nonprofit that works with state and local election officials to keep voting systems secure.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • And what is the Trump campaign producing if not fantastical propaganda intended to conjure a false image of Joe Biden’s America as a dark, dangerous place on the verge of destruction, besieged by immigrants, and savable only by one heroic man?
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of heroic
Adjective
  • Toyota's Land Cruiser 250 was released a year ago and was already enjoyable, daring, and off-road competent.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The daring — or fiercely independent — will find rental cars available through international and local companies at the airport and in some of the island's larger cities and towns.
    Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of daring
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“Temerarious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/temerarious. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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