foolhardy

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

foolhardy
    adj 1: marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences;
           "foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the
           hijacker"; "became the fiercest and most reckless of
           partisans"-Macaulay; "a reckless driver"; "a rash attempt
           to climb Mount Everest" [syn: {foolhardy}, {heady},
           {rash}, {reckless}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Foolhardy \Fool"har`dy\, a. [OF. folhardi. See {Fool} idiot, and
   {Hardy}.]
   Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold.
   --Howell.

   Syn: Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless;
        headlong; incautious. See {Rash}.
        [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

40 Moby Thesaurus words for "foolhardy":
      adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, brash, careless,
      cheeky, daredevil, daring, death-defying, devil-may-care,
      enterprising, fire-eating, forward, gutsy, harebrained, hasty,
      headlong, heedless, hotheaded, impetuous, imprudent, incautious,
      irresponsible, madbrain, madbrained, madcap, nervy, overbold,
      precipitate, presumptuous, rash, reckless, temerarious,
      thoughtless, unthinking, venturesome, venturous, wild, wild-ass

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