2021-03-28
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด W – wreckless & reckless
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ออกเสียง reckless = ‘REK-lis’
Common Errors In English Usage Dictionary
Wreckless& reckless
This word (wreckless) has nothing to dowith
creating the potential for a wreck.
Rather it involves not reckoning carefully
all the hazardsinvolved in an action.
The correct spelling istherefore “reckless.”
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Reckless
Choose the Right Synonym for reckless
ADVENTUROUS, VENTURESOME, DARING, DAREDEVIL, RASH, RECKLESS, FOOLHARDY
mean exposing oneself to danger more than required by good sense.
ADVENTUROUS implies a willingness to accept risks but not necessarily imprudence. adventurous pioneers
VENTURESOME implies a jaunty eagerness for perilous undertakings.
venturesome stunt pilots
DARING implies fearlessness in courting danger.
daring mountain climbers
DAREDEVIL stresses ostentation in daring. daredevil motorcyclists
RASH suggests imprudenceand lack of forethought. a rash decision
RECKLESS implies heedlessness of probable consequences.
a reckless driver
FOOLHARDY suggests a recklessness that is inconsistent with good sense.
the foolhardy sailor ventured into the storm
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Sometimes '-less' Is More
'Ruthless,' 'feckless,' and more '-less' words
Reckless
Definition - marked by lack of proper caution:
careless of consequences
The reck of reckless means “worry, care,”
and comes from the Middle English recken, meaning “to take heed.”
It is etymologically unrelated to wreck.
The appetite for admiration and small capacity for self-controul which I inherited from my father, nursed by adversity, made me daring and reckless.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Last Man, 1826
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Usage Notes
'Wreck' and 'Reckless': Accidents Happen
How to avoid a wreck
We speak ofsomeone as being reckless
when he or she does not take proper cautionin doing something:
Local authorities say
reckless recreational shooters are likely to blame for stray bullets
that hit a home and a woman's car in Rogers County.
— Cailey Dougherty, Fox23.com, 5 Dec. 2017
Reckless can be found in such phrases
as "with reckless abandon" and "reckless disregard."
It can also be found in contexts pertaining to crimes
and other violations of the law that areattributed to negligence.
By far the most common use is in phrases such as reckless driver.
But while a reckless driver might cause a wreck,
there is no linguistic relationshipbetween reckless and wreck.
It's only coincidental that the reckin reckless
might occasionally bump into the wreck
that happens when two cars collide.
After all, a driver who was "wreckless"
—that is, without wrecks
—would conceivably have no accidents on their record
and therefore be very safe.
But it's the very proximity between recklessnessand wrecks,
one suspects, that causes the word meaning "without caution"
to sometimes be spelled as wreckless:
Neither am I. I have a wreckless, wretched disposition that gets me into all sorts of hell. I need some one to care for me.
— Theodore Dreiser, The Titan, 1914
In actuality, reck is a verb meaning "to worry or care for"
or, in now-archaic uses, "to be of matter or concern."
Tho' as their fellow-creatures some of us may appreciate their position, yet as navy officers, what reck we of it? Still less recks the enemy.
— Herman Melville, Billy Budd, 1924
Reck is related, though not directly, to reckon,
a verb used in accounting and to mean"to think or suppose" in Southern idiom ("He had a gun which he had stole, I reckon, and we fished and hunted…" — Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, 1881).
Wreck,meanwhile, has roots in Medieval Latin (wreccum)
and Old Norse (rec) and use that dates to before the 12th century.
With any luck, this information will help keep you focused on the road ahead.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,
Synonyms: reckless, rash1, foolhardy, temerarious
These adjectives mean given to or marked by unthinking boldness.
Reckless suggests wild carelessness and disregard for consequences:
"conceiving measures to protect the fur-bearing animals from reckless slaughter" (Gertrude Atherton).
Rash implies haste, impetuousness, and insufficient consideration: "Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash" (George S. Patton).
Foolhardy implies injudicious or imprudent boldness:
a foolhardy attempt to wrest the gun from the mugger.
Temerarious suggests reckless presumption:
"this temerarious foeman who dared intervene between himself
[the elephant] and his intended victim" (Edgar Rice Burroughs).
