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incaution noun[ U ] formaluk /ɪnˈkɔː.ʃən/ us /ɪnˈkɑː.ʃən/ the quality or fact of not showing or giving careful thought to the possible results: This is not the time for incaution and rash decisions. He was often frank to the point of incaution. His apparent incaution in a recent interview has been taken as a sign that he is about to quit. The country will now have to pay the price for the president's reckless incaution. He seems to have got carried away by uncharacteristic incaution in handling evidence. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Not showing careful thought airily airiness airy bang something out bash bash something out frivolous frivolously ill-conceived incautious incautiously off the cuffidiom pat preconceived shallow shallowly shallowness shoot from the hipidiom unreflective unthinking
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