🚲 Without brakes 🔥 Uncontrolled

brakeless

7.0

Showing no control and often taking risky actions

adjective
/ˈbreɪk.ləs/

Informal

: irrefrenable

Her brakeless approach to spending left her in significant debt.

Examples

The politician's brakeless ambition led him to make risky decisions.
Her brakeless enthusiasm sometimes got her into trouble at work.
He drove through life with a brakeless energy that inspired those around him.
His brakeless enthusiasm for the project inspired everyone.
Why do you always act in such a brakeless manner?
The teenager's brakeless behavior on the road worried his parents.
During the meeting, his brakeless comments shocked everyone.

Synonyms

reckless

vsbrakeless

193 3.6

Acting without care about danger or the results

focuses on uncontrolled lack of restraint rather than ignoring danger

impulsive

vsbrakeless

78 4.4

Acting suddenly without careful thought because of a strong feeling

involves general lack of control rather than acting from sudden desire

guardless

vsbrakeless

8.6

Not careful in what you say or do

emphasizes active uncontrolled behavior rather than mere lack of caution

Antonyms

controlled

3.4

Kept within limits by careful management

How Reckless

brakeless

Informal

7.0

impulsive

78 4.4

careless

14 1.0

Surface Forms

brakeless positive

Morphology

brakeless = brake (semi-transparent) = brake + less

The adjective is a metaphorical extension from 'without brakes' to 'without restraint'; the link is inferable but requires conceptual transfer.

Etymology

Brakeless in a figurative sense comes from brake plus -less 'without', so a helpful way to remember it is to imagine a car with no brakes. It goes 'without control', so a person or action called brakeless is uncontrolled or reckless.