Used in a Sentence

incautious

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for incautious.

Editorial note

IPv6 would only promote incautious distribution which would again result in address space exhaustion, more abuse and increased cybercrime.

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Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

careless, reckless, not exercising proper caution.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of incautious gathered in one view.

adjective

careless, reckless, not exercising proper caution.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for incautious.

Example sentences

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IPv6 would only promote incautious distribution which would again result in address space exhaustion, more abuse and increased cybercrime.

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So the prediction that incautious and unverified unsafe {} blocks would cause CVEs seems entirely accurate.

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It also signals professionalism in their field - who would want to rely on someone so incautious as to write plainly?

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If the scientists are incautious, the computer code's genome (instead of the intented original DNA) might be written to the biological cell.

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But their marketing is incautious and might need to be tuned up.

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If you're incautious and don't pay attention to your object creation/destruction cycle in a tight loop, you're in for a world of hurt (no surprise there).

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And incautious use could still leave DNA or fingerprints.

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> So the prediction that incautious and unverified unsafe {} blocks would cause CVEs seems entirely accurate.

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It was incautious of me to state otherwise.

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It just sounds extremely incautious to me.

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You might enjoy the Incautious Optimism Substack.

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> But their marketing is incautious and might need to be tuned up.

Quote examples

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What kind of case can you make that "incautious and unverified unsafe {} blocks" is worse than that?

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One of those "incautious scientists" thinks they are synthesizing something benign, not taking precautions, and a highly infectious disease pops out.

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I was asking if there is not an inverse function, which would be a higher karma unflag operation, on the assumption people who flag up are being somewhat incautious and a smaller set of people could say "no, this is worth seeing" I have no problem with flagging per se, or with my own ability to see flagged content.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use incautious in a sentence?

IPv6 would only promote incautious distribution which would again result in address space exhaustion, more abuse and increased cybercrime.

What does incautious mean?

careless, reckless, not exercising proper caution.

What part of speech is incautious?

incautious is commonly used as adjective.