different between reckless vs scapegrace

English

Alternative forms

• rechless, retchless (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English rekles, reckeles, rekkeles, (also recheles), from Old English r?cel?as (“reckless, careless, negligent”), equivalent to reck +? -less. Cognate with West Frisian roekeleas (“reckless”), Dutch roekeloos (“reckless”), German Low German ruuklos (“careless”), German ruchlos (“careless, notorious”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???kl?s/

Adjective

reckless (comparative recklesser or more reckless, superlative recklessest or most reckless)

1. Careless or heedless; headstrong or rash.
2. Indifferent to danger or the consequences.

Antonyms

• reckful

Derived terms

• recklessness

Translations

Anagrams

• clerkess

English

Etymology

From scape +? grace

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ske?p??e?s/

Noun

scapegrace (plural scapegraces)

2. A wild and reckless person (especially a boy); a scoundrel.
   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 4:

     He is now laden with that superabundant energy which makes a fool of a man, and a scapegrace of a boy, and he wants to work it off.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:scapegrace.

Synonyms

• black sheep, rascal, rogue; see also Thesaurus:villain