cautious
adjective
showing, using, or characterized by alertness and prudence in a hazardous or uncertain situation; careful or wary.
uncautious
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a word derived from
cautious.
Example Sentences
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Yet the sands are by no means without danger, especially to the uncautious or unwary.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by John Roby
There were serpents coiling about the roots of every flower, or amid the leaves, waiting with undulating head and forked tongue to strike the uncautious hand.
From AE in the Irish Theosophist by George William Russell
I am careless, improvident, uncautious, happy out of sheer well-being and overplus of physical energy.
From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by Jack London
To impair the force of this exposition, the ardent advocates of the Colonization Society will undoubtedly attempt to evade the ground of controversy, and lead uncautious minds astray in a labyrinth of sophistry.
From Thoughts on African Colonization by William Lloyd Garrison
As she read it over to herself she thought that there was a tone through it of natural feminine uncautious eagerness.
From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
