rash

Meanings

Adjective

• Acting too quickly without considering the risks and consequences; not careful; hasty.
• So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
• Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.
• Fast-acting.

Noun

• An area of reddened, irritated, and inflamed skin.
• A surge in problems; a spate, string or trend.
• An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.

Verb

• To prepare with haste.
• To pull off or pluck violently.
• To slash; to hack; to slice.

Related

Similar words

• brash
• heady
• hotheaded
• impulsive
• inconsiderate
• precipitate
• epidemic

Origin

• , from Proto-Germanic *raskaz, *raskuz, *raþskaz, *raþskuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ret-. Cognate with Dutch rasch, ras, Middle Low German rasch, German rasch, Swedish rask, Icelandic röskur.
• Likely from Old French rasche ("rash, scurf"), from Vulgar Latin root *rāsicāre, from Latin rāsus ("scraped, scratched"), from Latin rādō. More at raze/rase.
• Compare French ras ("short-nap cloth"), Italian and Spanish raso, satin, or Italian rascia ("serge"), German Rasch, probably from Arras in France.
• For arace