Incautious vs Listless - What's the difference?
incautious | listless | Related terms |
careless, reckless, not exercising proper caution
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Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.
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Incautious is a related term of listless.
As adjectives the difference between incautious and listless
is that incautious is careless, reckless, not exercising proper caution while listless is lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.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
* incautiouslylistless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I passed whole days on the lake alone in a little boat, watching the clouds and listening to the rippling of the waves, silent and listless .
- What an entirely different set of beings were those Stokesley children in lesson-time. . . . Poor, listless , stolid, deplorable logs, with bowed backs and crossed ankles, pipy voices and heavy eyes!
- The scene with Mrs. Wallace had broken his spirit, and he was listless now, indifferent to what happened.
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- “Listless , inattentive, distracted,” he recited. “A daydreamer. Tries his best, but is too slow.”