Rash vs Audacious - What's the difference?
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Acting too quickly without considering the risks and consequences; not careful; hasty.
So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
(obsolete) Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Fast-acting.
* Shakespeare
(symptom) An area of reddened, irritated, and inflamed skin.
A surge in problems; a spate, string or trend
(obsolete) To prepare with haste.
An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.
To pull off or pluck violently.
To slash; to hack; to slice.
* Spenser
Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
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Impudent.
As a proper noun rash
is .As an adjective audacious is
showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.rash
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) rash, .Adjective
(er)- rash words spoken in the heat of debate
- I scarce have leisure to salute you, / My matter is so rash .
- Strong as aconitum or rash gunpowder.
Synonyms
(checksyns) * brash * heady * hotheaded * impulsive * inconsiderate * precipitateDerived terms
* rashnessNoun
(rashes)- There has been a rash of vandalism lately.
Synonyms
(A surge in problems) epidemicDerived terms
* canker rash * diaper rash * heat rash * hiker’s rash * nappy rash * nettle rash * rashguard * rashie * rash vest * reef rash * rose rash * tooth rashSee also
* prudent * recklessVerb
- (Foxe)
Etymology 2
Compare (etyl) , (etyl) Rasch, probably from Arras in France.Noun
(-)- (John Donne)
Etymology 3
For araceVerb
(es)- rashing of helms and riving plates asunder
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Adjective
(en adjective)- That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.