rashly

rashly

English

Etymology

rash +‎ -ly

Adverb

rashly (comparative more rashly, superlative most rashly)

1. In a rash manner; hastily or without due consideration; with precipitation.

   Synonym: (archaic) rash

   • 1593, anonymous, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:

     Alas Wat, I haue kild the kings officer in ſtriking raſhly.

   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, OCLC 724111485, [Act III, scene iv], page 57:

     VVhy do you ſpeake ſo ſtartingly and raſhly.

     The First Folio (1623), page 327, uses the word rash.

   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 241a.

     [H]e'll say that we're contradicting what was said just now when we rashly maintain that there are falsehoods in judgements and statements.

Translations

in a rash manner

Aramaic: Classical Syriac: ܐܝܩܐ‎ (ʾīqēʾ) Bengali: অন্ধভাবে (bn) (ôndhôbhabe) Chinese: Mandarin: 輕易／轻易 (zh) (qīngyì) Finnish: hätäisesti (fi), varomattomasti (fi) French: étourdiment (fr), imprudemment (fr) Georgian: გამალებულად (gamalebulad) German: vorschnell (de) Greek: αβασάνιστα (el) (avasánista) Ancient: εἰκῇ (eikêi), κραιπνῶς (kraipnôs) Italian: ardimentosamente, arrischiatamente (it), avventatamente (it), azzardatamente (it), azzardosamente, inconsultamente (it), malcautamente (it), precipitatamente, temerariamente (it) Latin: audacter, audaciter, audenter, imprūdenter, temerē (la) Norman: hardîment Portuguese: precipitadamente Russian: опроме́тчиво (ru) (oprométčivo), поспе́шно (ru) (pospéšno) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: на̑гло Roman: nȃglo (sh) Swedish: förhastat (sv), obetänksamt (sv) Urdu: بے تحاشا‎ (be-tahāśā)

References

• rashly in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• rashly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913