Meaning of IMPRUDENT
| Pronunciation: | | im'proodnt
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- [adj] lacking wise self-restraint; "an imprudent remark"
- [adj] not prudent or wise; "very imprudent of her mother to encourage her in such silly romantic ideas"; "would be imprudent for a noneconomist to talk about the details of economic policy"- A.M.Schlesinger
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| | Synonyms: | | ill-considered, ill-judged, improvident, indiscreet, injudicious, rash, shortsighted |
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| | Antonyms: | | prudent | | |
| | See Also: | | careless, foolish | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Im*pru"dent\, a. [L. imprudens; pref. im- not +
prudens prudent: cf. F. imprudent. See {Prudent}, and cf.
{Improvident}.]
Not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet;
injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper. --
{Im*pru"dent*ly}, adv.
Her majesty took a great dislike at the imprudent
behavior of many of the ministers and readers.
--Strype.
Syn: Indiscreet; injudicious; incautious; ill-advised;
unwise; heedless; careless; rash; negligent.
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| | Related Terms: | | blanket, brash, brazen, brazenfaced, careless, casual, crazy, foolhardy, foolish, general, hasty, heedless, hubristic, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged, impetuous, impolitic, improvident, impudent, impulsive, inadvisable, inane, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, indiscriminate, indiscriminative, inexpedient, injudicious, insane, insensate, insensitive, insolent, irrational, irresponsible, mad, mindless, misadvised, misguided, myopic, nonjudgmental, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, oversure, overweening, perverse, promiscuous, rash, reasonless, reckless, senseless, shortsighted, silly, tactless, temerarious, thoughtless, unadvised, unchary, unconsidered, uncritical, uncriticizing, undemanding, undifferentiating, undiscerning, undiscreet, undiscriminating, undiscriminative, unexacting, unfastidious, unforeseeing, unmeticulous, unparticular, unreasonable, unreflecting, unreflective, unseeing, unselective, unsensible, unsound, unsubtle, untactful, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwary, unwise, wholesale, witless, wrong |
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