Word Meanings - RAKEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Hasty; reckless; rash. Chaucer. -- Ra"kel*ness, n. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to RAKEL)

• RECKLESS
  1. Inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent. Chaucer. 2. Rashly negligent; utterly careless or heedless. It made the king as reckless as them diligent. Sir P. Sidney. Syn. -- Heedless; careless; mindless; thoughtless; negligent;
• HASTY
  Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper. Take no unkindness of his hasty words. Shak 6. Forward; early; first ripe. "As the hasty fruit before the summer." Is. xxviii. 4. (more info) 1. Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as,
• HASTY PUDDING
  1. A thick batter pudding made of Indian meal stirred into boiling water; mush. 2. A batter or pudding made of flour or oatmeal, stirred into boiling water or milk.
• OVERHASTY
  Too hasty; precipitate; rash. -- O"ver*has"ti*ly, adv. -- O`ver*has"ti*ness, n.
• FOOL-HASTY
  Foolishly hasty.