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Definition of 'rash' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) rash
acting too hastily or without due consideration.

2.  rash
made or done with reckless or ill-considered haste:
rash promises.

3. (n.) rash
an eruption of spots on the skin.

4.  rash
multiple occurrences of something at about the same time:
a rash of robberies last month.

Etymology:  (1700–10; < F rache (obs.), OF rasche skin eruption, der. of raschier to scratch, ult. < L rādere to scratch)

Definition of 'rash' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) rash, roseola, efflorescence, skin rash
any red eruption of the skin

2. (adj) rash, blizzard
a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences
"a rash of bank robberies"; "a blizzard of lawsuits"

3. (adj) rash
imprudently incurring risk
"do something rash that he will forever repent"- George Meredith

4. (adj) foolhardy, heady, rash, reckless
marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences
"foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker"; "became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans"-Macaulay; "a reckless driver"; "a rash attempt to climb Mount Everest"


Definition of 'rash' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) rash
small red spots on the skin caused by an allergy, illness, etc.
an itchy rash

2.  rash
a rash of
a large number of the same thing happening in a short period
a rash of burglaries in the area

3. (adjective) rash
done without careful thought or planning
a rash decision


Definition of 'rash' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) rash
a fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation

2. (noun) rash
an inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted

3.  rash
sudden in action; quick; hasty

4.  rash
requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent

5.  rash
esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander

6.  rash
uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures

7.  rash
so dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn

8. (verb) rash
to pull off or pluck violently

9. (verb) rash
to slash; to hack; to cut; to slice

10. (verb) rash
to prepare with haste


Translation of 'rash' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: acting, or done, with little caution or thought
a rash person/action/statement; It was rash of you to leave your present job without first finding another.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: onbesonne Arabic flag Arabic: طائِش، مُتَهَوِّر Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: прибързан
Brazilian flag Brazilian: precipitado Czech flag Czech: unáhlený German flag German: unbesonnen
Danish flag Danish: ubesindig; overilet Greek flag Greek: απερίσκεπτος Spanish flag Spanish: imprudente
Estonian flag Estonian: läbematu Farsi flag Farsi: حرف یا عمل نسنجیده؛ بی مل Finnish flag Finnish: harkitsematon
French flag French: imprudent Hebrew flag Hebrew: פָּזִיז Hindi flag Hindi: अतिशीघ्र
Croatian flag Croatian: nepromišljen, nagao Hungarian flag Hungarian: elhamarkodott, meggondola Indonesian flag Indonesian: kurang pikir
Icelandic flag Icelandic: fljótfær Italian flag Italian: imprudente Japanese flag Japanese: せっかちな
Korean flag Korean: 경솔한 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: neapdairus, skubotas Latvian flag Latvian: pārsteidzīgs
Malay flag Malay: terburu-buru Dutch flag Dutch: onbezonnen Norwegian flag Norwegian: forhastet, overilt
Polish flag Polish: pochopny Persian flag Persian: حرف یا عمل نسنجیده؛ بی مل Pashto flag Pashto: بى پروا، بى باكه، بى سنجش
Portuguese flag Portuguese: precipitado Romanian flag Romanian: nechibzuit Russian flag Russian: опрометчивый; необдуманны
Slovak flag Slovak: prenáhlený, nerozvážny Slovenian flag Slovenian: nepremišljen Serbian flag Serbian: nepromišljen
Swedish flag Swedish: överilad, obetänksam Thai flag Thai: หุนหันพลันแล่น Turkish flag Turkish: aceleci, düşüncesiz
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 魯莽的,輕率的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: квапливий; необачний Urdu flag Urdu: جلد باز
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: hấp tấp Chinese flag Chinese: 鲁莽的,轻率的

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