INCAUTIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incautiously mean? 

• INCAUTIOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb INCAUTIOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. without caution or prudence

  Familiarity information: INCAUTIOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCAUTIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without caution or prudence

Synonyms:

carelessly; incautiously

Context example:

one unfortunately sees historic features carelessly lost when estates fall into unsympathetic hands

Antonym:

cautiously (as if with kid gloves; with caution or prudence or tact)

Pertainym:

incautious (lacking in caution)

 Context examples 

Somebody incautiously asked, what from?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His behaviour to herself could now have had no tolerable motive; he had either been deceived with regard to her fortune, or had been gratifying his vanity by encouraging the preference which she believed she had most incautiously shown.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)