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Brainless vs Incautious - What's the difference?

brainless | incautious | Related terms |

Brainless is a related term of incautious.


As adjectives the difference between brainless and incautious

is that brainless is (lb) having no brain while incautious is careless, reckless, not exercising proper caution.

brainless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (lb) Having no brain.
  • (lb) Unintelligent, with little common sense.
  • *
  • *:"I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital,!"

    • incautious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • careless, reckless, not exercising proper caution
  • * 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
    • "You might have remained so still," replies Jones, "if you had not been unfortunate, I will venture to say incautious , in the placing your affections.
  • * 1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
    • "Yes, let 'Sister' Davis have a whack at it too," urged George Bland. Tom Davis, who was Joe Matson's particular chum, was designated "Sister" because, in an incautious moment, when first coming to Excelsior Hall, he had shown a picture of his very pretty sister, Mabel.

    Derived terms

    * incautiously