RECKLESSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recklessly mean? 

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

1. in a reckless manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECKLESSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a reckless manner

Pertainym:

reckless (characterized by careless unconcern)

 Context examples 

Mr. Rochester continued, hardily and recklessly: Bigamy is an ugly word!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was about to push recklessly forward into the open, when Sir Nigel himself darted in front of him, with his hand upon his breast.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She had promised to love him for better or worse, and then she, his wife, had reproached him with his poverty, after spending his earnings recklessly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And when he answered, he told her recklessly that he had not been to see her because his best clothes were in pawn.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

When we came to the part where Harker had rushed at the Count so recklessly, she clung to her husband's arm, and held it tight as though her clinging could protect him from any harm that might come.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A perhaps uncalled-for gush of pity came over my heart: I was moved to say—I wish Diana or Mary would come and live with you: it is too bad that you should be quite alone; and you are recklessly rash about your own health.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)