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We have witnessed the most educated, successful, and monied professionals in the country put their companies - not to mention their own liberty - at risk by engaging in flagrant and foolhardy illegal conduct.
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Meaning of "foolhardy" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FOOLHARDY

From Old French fol hardi, from fol foolish + hardi bold.
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PRONUNCIATION OF FOOLHARDY

foolhardy  [ˈfuːlˌhɑːdɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FOOLHARDY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Foolhardy is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES FOOLHARDY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of foolhardy in the English dictionary

The definition of foolhardy in the dictionary is heedlessly rash or adventurous.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FOOLHARDY


cadi
ˈkɑːdɪ
cardi
ˈkɑːdɪ
cardy
ˈkɑːdɪ
Coolgardie
kuːlˈɡɑːdɪ
gaddi
ˈɡɑːdɪ
gadi
ˈɡɑːdɪ
Hardie
ˈhɑːdɪ
hardy
ˈhɑːdɪ
kabaddi
kəˈbɑːdɪ
kadi
ˈkɑːdɪ
khadi
ˈkɑːdɪ
Lombardi
lɒmˈbɑːdɪ
Longobardi
ˈlɒŋɡəˌbɑːdɪ
Mahdi
ˈmɑːdɪ
Matadi
məˈtɑːdɪ
nonhardy
ˌnɒnˈhɑːdɪ
Takoradi
ˌtɑːkəˈrɑːdɪ
tardy
ˈtɑːdɪ
unhardy
ʌnˈhɑːdɪ
Yardie
ˈjɑːdɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FOOLHARDY

fool´s paradise
fool´s-parsley
foolbegged
fooleries
foolery
foolfish
foolhardier
foolhardiest
foolhardily
foolhardiness
fooling about
foolish
foolishly
foolishness
foolproof
foolscap
foolscap envelope
foolscap octavo
foolscap quarto
foolscap sheet

WORDS THAT END LIKE FOOLHARDY

bardy
bastardy
beardy
blizzardy
cardboardy
crack hardy
custardy
dastardy
double jeopardy
goliardy
half-hardy
jeopardy
lardy
Laurel and Hardy
Lollardy
Lombardy
mustardy
Picardy
swardy
vardy

Synonyms and antonyms of foolhardy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FOOLHARDY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «foolhardy» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of foolhardy

Translation of «foolhardy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FOOLHARDY

Find out the translation of foolhardy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of foolhardy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «foolhardy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

有勇无谋
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

temerario
570 millions of speakers

English

foolhardy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उजड्ड
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حماقة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

безрассудно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

temerário
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হঠকারী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

téméraire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bodoh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

tollkühn
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

無謀な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

무모한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bodho
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dại dột
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மடத்தனமாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मूर्ख
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gözükara
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

avventato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ryzykowne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нерозважливо
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

temerar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παράτολμο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

doldriest
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dumdristig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dumdristig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of foolhardy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FOOLHARDY»

The term «foolhardy» is regularly used and occupies the 93.877 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FOOLHARDY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «foolhardy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «foolhardy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about foolhardy

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6 QUOTES WITH «FOOLHARDY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word foolhardy.
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Preet Bharara
We have witnessed the most educated, successful, and monied professionals in the country put their companies - not to mention their own liberty - at risk by engaging in flagrant and foolhardy illegal conduct.
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Jane Campion
I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.
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Laurie Lee
I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.
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David Mitchell
I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
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Frank Rich
History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.
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Stefan Zweig
It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOOLHARDY»

Discover the use of foolhardy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to foolhardy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Gastronaut: Adventures in Food for the Romantic, the ...
An irreverent journey through the exotic and bizarre regions of the culinary world begins with the author's vow to enjoy the portion of his life devoted to food and considers such offbeat topics as the dishes most likely to cause ...
Stefan Gates, 2006
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Sir Foolhardy & the Misfits of Mushwood Forest
Sir Foolhardy decided to move them into a cave that he had discovered in Mushwood Forest years before, during one of his many quests for adventure. The two had lived there ever since. Now, many years later, their lives were still very much ...
Anthony Paolucci, 2012
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A Country Wife: Farms, Families and Other Foolhardy Adventures
This is the story of a woman who began rural life in romance, raised a family in the farmyard, was left by her husband just as her name was being made as a columnist for the countryside, and found a whole new life for herself in the hills ...
Lucy Pinney, 2005
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Essence of a Manager
The distinction between a brave person and a foolhardy one then becomes one of discernment and judgment of risk and not the level of fear or the level of risk. Both may perceive threat and experience fear. The brave action is one where the  ...
Krishna Pillai, 2011
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A Valency Dictionary of English: A Corpus-based Analysis of ...
He was fond of saying that the reason he made money was so that he could give it away. foolhardy adjective P1 attr Who says men are unromantic? They're P5 the ones who rush headlong into foolhardy acts of adoration. P2 pred You might  ...
Thomas Herbst, 2004
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Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial ...
Eliminating Foolhardy Queries. Let T denote a modified version of algorithm T which works as follows: like T, it starts out by making q draws from the distribution . Let Q be the set of all indices i such that all q draws from the distribution have the ...
Moses Charikar, 2007
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The Complete Russian Folktale: An introduction to the ...
As he was riding over it, his horse fell upon its knees. He said, "Oh, you wolf's bait , you bear's bait, why are you stumbling? Do you sense someone here of my strength? A rider stronger than you? There is only Danilko, the foolhardy lad, ...
Jack V. Haney, 1999
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The London Review and Weekly Journal of Politics, ...
FOOLHARDY ON THE ICE. To the great bulk of the men, women, and children of this country, the blessings of a mild winter are, no doubt, something for which to be thankful to Heaven. The good is so obvious ; it is shared by rich and poor, and  ...
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English synonyms explained: with copious illustrations and ...
An Infldel is foolhardy, who risks his future salvation for the mere gratification of Lis pride ; If any yet be to foolhardy, T' expose themselves to vain jeopardy, If they come wounded off and lame, No honour *s got by such a maim.— Butler.
George Crabb, 1844
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English Synonymes: With Copious Illustrations and ...
FOOLHARDY, ADVENTUROUS, RASH. Foolhardy signifies having the hardihood of a foci □ adventurous, ready to venture; rash, in German rase)!, which signifies swift, comes from the Arabick raaschen to go swiftly. The foolhardy expresses ...
George Crabb, 1837

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FOOLHARDY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term foolhardy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Iran opposition spokesman tells Sky News: Trusting mullahs is …
Iran opposition spokesman tells Sky News: Trusting mullahs is foolhardy. Details: Saturday, 11 July 2015 11:20. Print · Email. Share ... «NCR-Iran.org, Jul 15»
2
Boyband singer James McElvar collapses wearing 12 layers on flight
With his bandmates already aboard and just minutes to spare, he made a foolhardy snap decision, emptying his rucksack and donning the ... «Rappler, Jul 15»
3
Drama has the winning formula - DVD reviews | Burton Mail
Fox's plucky heroine puts herself in harm's way with foolhardy regularity and you have to question her suitability as a teacher. Meanwhile ... «Burton Mail, Jul 15»
4
Australia's empty words exposed by England | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo
The mentality was aggressive, and the game kept moving, but the cricket was smart rather than foolhardy. One exemplar of this was Ben Stokes ... «ESPNcricinfo.com, Jul 15»
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Chris Froome keeps Tour de France lead but Alexis Vuillermoz …
... seemed content or foolhardy enough to soldier on regardless of the injuries that eventually forced them out of the race and into hospital beds. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Television: 'Midday' wades into unusually serious waters …
... being blown up by suicide bombers and IEDs in Iraq at the time, it was a remarkably brave, some might say foolhardy, piece of television. «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
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Boyband singer collapses wearing 12 layers of clothes on flight …
With his bandmates already aboard and just minutes to spare, he made a foolhardy snap decision, emptying his rucksack and donning the ... «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
8
FTII row: From Ranbir Kapoor to Anupam Kher, list opposing …
By doing all the protests they are just being foolhardy." But unfazed by this opposition from the Bollywood fraternity and other quarters, ... «Firstpost, Jul 15»
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The lose-lose political problem of AHPETC, Politics News & Top …
It would be a foolhardy electorate that gives it another one. WATCH THE VIDEO ONLINE. Find out what Aljunied residents think http://str.sg/ELy. «The Straits Times, Jul 15»
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Tsipras rattled his sabre until it was blunt – and for what? | Business …
It looked a bold, even foolhardy move. The ECB capped its emergency support to Greece's banks. Limits were put on cash withdrawals of €60 a ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»

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