temerarious

From Latin temerārius (“that happens by chance, imprudent”), from temerē (“by chance, at random, rashly”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌtɛməˈɹɛəɹi.əs/

temerarious (comparative more temerarious, superlative most temerarious)

1. Recklessly daring or bold.
   • 1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, A Christmas Sermon:

     To look back upon the past year, and see how little we have striven and to what small purpose: and how often we have been cowardly and hung back, or temerarious and rushed unwisely in; and how every day and all day long we have transgressed the law of kindness;—it may seem a paradox, but in the bitterness of these discoveries, a certain consolation resides.

• audacious

• temerariously
• temerariousness

• temerity

• temerarious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• temerarious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• temerarious at OneLook Dictionary Search