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Rash

noun

Any red eruption of the skin. Synonyms: efflorescence, roseola, skin rash.

A series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences. Synonym: blizzard. "A blizzard of lawsuits"

adjective

(compar. rasher; superl. rashest)

Imprudently incurring risk.

Marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences. Synonyms: foolhardy, heady, reckless. "Became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans" , "A reckless driver" , "A rash attempt to climb Mount Everest"

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"Rash" Quotes from Famous Books

... the habitual wearing of spectacles was at first very irksome, but in time he adapted himself to them. Even defects have their compensations. He was naturally rash and daring, and his short sight undoubtedly acted as a check on an impetuous temperament. He early gave signs of unusual intelligence. His activity of body was as remarkable as his quickness of mind. At play and at work, with his toys as with his books, he displayed the same intensity; ...

— War Letters of a Public-School Boy • Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones

... the muskets. This made Captain Osborn most anxious to land as soon as possible, but as the savages were in such numbers, and the crew of the schooner did not consist of more than twenty-five men, the commander considered it was rash to make the attempt. He did, however, show the utmost anxiety to bring his schooner to an anchor, so as to protect his men, and then agreed that they ...

— Masterman Ready - The Wreck of the "Pacific" • Captain Frederick Marryat

... Roderic proposed a shudder of horror ran through the land. Nobles and bishops hastened to the audience chamber and sought to hinder the fateful purpose of the rash monarch. Their hearts were filled with dread of the perils that would follow any meddling with the magic spell, and they earnestly implored him not to bring the foretold disaster ...

— Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII • Charles Morris

... combat is above seven thousand three hundred. The French own the loss of three thousand; I don't believe many more, for it was a most rash and desperate perseverance on our side. The Duke behaved very bravely and humanely; but this will ...

— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume I • Horace Walpole

... yourself, that you were depressed and unhappy, and I was confident that Mr. Willard was the cause of it; that it was on his account you refused to go to Europe with your guardian. It even seemed to me that you were almost on the point of taking some step, doing something rash, from which you instinctively shrank, and when I asked you to come home with me you seized the opportunity as a loophole of escape. Of course, I have not been blind and I have suspected that certain letters which have come to you here were from Mr. Willard, and when I saw him ...

— Katherine's Sheaves • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

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