Incautious vs Injudicious - What's the difference?
incautious | injudicious | Related terms |
careless, reckless, not exercising proper caution
* 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
* 1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
Showing poor judgement; not well judged.
* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , section 3, ยง 18:
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Incautious is a related term of injudicious.
As adjectives the difference between incautious and injudicious
is that incautious is careless, reckless, not exercising proper caution while injudicious is showing poor judgement; not well judged.incautious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "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.
- "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
* incautiouslyinjudicious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- By introducing, into any composition, personages and actions, foreign to each other, an injudicious author loses that communication of emotions,