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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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
I am careless, improvident, uncautious, happy out of sheer well-being and overplus of physical energy.
From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by Jack London
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
None who had other than friendly business there would come uncautious.
From The Last Straw by Harold Titus
Blindly she runs, uncautious of the snare, When, darting from the ambush, where he lies, The moment snatched, false Aruns shakes his spear, 883 And thus, with measured aim, invokes the Gods with prayer.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
