Rash

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  • noun. A visible lesion or group of lesions on the skin, caused by any of numerous factors including infectious agents, drugs, and allergies.
  • noun. An outbreak of many instances within a brief period.
  • adjective. Resulting from or acting with ill-considered haste or boldness. synonym: reckless.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To put together hurriedly; prepare with haste.
  • To publish imprudently; blab.
  • To cook too rapidly; burn from haste: as, the beef has been rashed in the roasting.
  • Quick; sudden; hasty.
  • Hasty in council or action; precipitate; headstrong; impetuous; venturesome: as, a rash statesman or minister; a rash commander.
  • Marked by or manifesting inconsiderate haste in speech or action; resulting from temerity or recklessness: as, rash words; rash measures.
  • Requiring haste; urgent.
  • Synonyms and Enterprising, Foolhardy, etc. (see adventurous), precipitate, hasty, headlong, inconsiderate, careless, heedless. See list under reckless.
  • To tear or slash violently; lacerate; rend; hack; hew; slice.
  • So ripe or dry as to break or fall readily, as corn from dry straw in handling.
  • noun. Corn in the straw, so dry as to fall out with handling.
  • noun. A kind of inferior manufacture of silk or of silk and stuff.
  • noun. A more or less extensive eruption on the skin.
  • noun. An obsolete or dialectal form of rush.
  • noun. A crisp rustle; a crackle.
  • Quick, brisk, hot; causing too quick a result: as, a rash fire.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.
  • noun. See in the Vocabulary.
  • noun. See Urticaria.
  • noun. See Roseola.
  • noun. See Red-gum.
  • noun. An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.
  • transitive verb. To prepare with haste.
  • transitive verb. To pull off or pluck violently.
  • transitive verb. To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.
  • adjective. Sudden in action; quick; hasty.
  • adjective. Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.
  • adjective. 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.
  • adjective. Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection
  • adjective. So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. hasty, not careful or considered.
  • noun. An area of reddened, irritated, and inflamed skin.
  • noun. A surge in problems; a spate, string or trend
  • verb. To prepare with haste.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences
  • noun. a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences
  • noun. any red eruption of the skin
  • adjective. imprudently incurring risk
  • Word Usage
    "There have been a rash of sightings and I use the term rash here as a caution to all people to not engage in unprotected sex with workers of the sex industry."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    careful  
    cross-reference
    Equivalent
    bold  imprudent  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    series  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Asch  Ash  Ashe  Bash  Cash  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    audacious  bold  fatal  foolish  generous  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form
    rashed  rashes  rashing