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Incautious vs Wareless - What's the difference?

incautious | wareless |

As adjectives the difference between incautious and wareless

is that incautious is careless, reckless, not exercising proper caution while wareless is unwary, incautious.

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

    wareless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Unwary, incautious.
  • (obsolete) Unaware of danger etc; unguarded.
  • *1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:
  • *:Both they vnwise, and warelesse of the euill, / That by themselues vnto themselues is wrought, / Through that false witch [...].