rash
rash is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb, noun, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To pull off or pluck violently. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To pull off or pluck violently.
- transitive verb. To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.
- noun. A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.
- noun. An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.
- superlative. Sudden in action; quick; hasty.
- superlative. Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.
- superlative. 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.
- superlative. Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.
- superlative. So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
- transitive verb. To prepare with haste.
- noun. a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences
"a rash of bank robberies"
"a blizzard of lawsuits"
- noun. any red eruption of the skin
- adjective. marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences-Macaulay
"foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker"
"became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans"
- adjective. imprudently incurring risk- George Meredith
"do something rash that he will forever repent"
Synonyms
blizzard, efflorescence, roseola, foolhardy, heady, reckless
Common word forms
rasher, rashes, rashly, rashest, rashful, rashing, rashness
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