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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Characterized by sudden and forceful energy or emotion; impulsive and passionate.
  2. adj. Having or marked by violent force: impetuous, heaving waves.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having or characterized by great impetus; rushing with force and violence; acting with sudden, vehement, or rash energy; performed or delivered with sudden, overbearing force: as, an impetuous torrent; an impetuous charge or harangue.
  2. Synonyms Precipitate, hot, furious, vehement, passionate.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Making arbitrary decisions, especially in an impulsive and forceful manner.
  2. adj. Characterized by sudden and violent force.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Rushing with force and violence; moving with impetus; furious; forcible; violent.
  2. adj. Vehement in feeling; hasty; passionate; violent.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation
  2. adj. marked by violent force

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English, from Old French impetueux, from Late Latin impetuōsus ("violent"), from Latin impetus ("violence"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, violent, from Old French impetueux, from Late Latin impetuōsus, from Latin impetus, impetus; see impetus. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • dailyword One of the bad guys that they dealt with called Artie this. Sep 23, 2012

  • gangerh Saying what you think without thinking. Feb 14, 2008

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