Vocabulary
Foolhardy
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
recklessly bold or rash.
Urdu meaning
بےوقوف، اکھڑ، بے پرواہ
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Trump is not content on ensuring, as past US presidents have done, that the US had the capacity to defend itself against any aggressors foolhardy enough to cross the Atlantic or the Pacific oceans.
- The foolhardy prefer the doctrine of arrière-pensée, steering themselves by using the rear view window.
- If Israel were foolhardy enough to launch an attack on Hezbollah, Iran is unlikely to leave its Lebanese ally in the lurch, while America has promised to come to Israel`s aid in case of such a scenario.
- Given the importance being attached to economic revival, it would be nothing but utterly foolhardy to delay the elections.
Synonyms
reckless, rash, incautious, careless, heedless, unheeding, thoughtless, unwise
Curator example
“it would be foolhardy to go into the scheme without support”
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