foolhardy
adjectiveRecklessly bold despite obvious danger or difficulty.
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Clear all filtersRecklessly bold despite obvious danger or difficulty.
A difficult or unfavorable condition or period.
A cause of sustained pain, distress, or hardship.
Showing an unfeeling disregard for other people's difficulties.
Strongly persuasive or holding close attention.
Strongly persuasive
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Driven by an urge that is difficult to resist.
Complicated and difficult to follow.
Complicated and hard to follow
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Difficult to find, catch, achieve, or define.
Very attentive to details or demanding about cleanliness, taste, or standards.
Courage and strength in facing difficulty.
Not seeming reasonable or believable.
Unlikely to happen or to be true.
Not readily corrected or reformed; persistently fixed in a habit.
Lacking the resources needed for basic living.
So deeply established that it is difficult to change.
Extremely difficult to tolerate.
Very hard to tolerate
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To make something harder to understand, often deliberately.
Not well known or difficult to see, understand, or explain.
Difficult to understand
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Guided by practical results and real circumstances.
Focused on practical results
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Soft, boggy ground; figuratively, a difficult situation from which escape is hard.
Boggy ground
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Stubbornly resistant to control or an attempted remedy.
Resisting control
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Able to recover or return to form after difficulty or pressure.
Returning to physical form
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Strong, vigorous, or able to withstand difficulty.
To make something firmer, more secure, or more firmly established.
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