Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Unwise or indiscreet; not prudent.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not prudent; wanting prudence or discretion; not careful of consequences; indiscreet; rash; heedless.
- Synonyms Incautious, careless, unadvised, inconsiderate.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not prudent or wise
- adj. lacking wise self-restraint
Etymologies
- From Latin imprudens ("not foreseeing, ignorant"), prefix im-, not + prudens ("foreseeing, skilled, judicious") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The State Department is vowing to get to the bottom of what it calls imprudent curiosity.”
“On their arrival at the house of the latter, he strongly reprobated what he termed the imprudent application of the”
The Monk and the Vine-dresser: or, the Emigrants of Bellesme
“Juris imprudent is quite right to call you out on this.”
“The Bishop's remark was not 'imprudent' - it was plain 100\% false.”
“The State Department though, Rob, is treating this as sort of a step-by-step methodical process, and they're also treating all three instances as cases by these individuals of what they're calling imprudent curiosity, saying they're not just being dismissive of the whole thing.”
“And it must be admitted that Mr Palliser had been a little imprudent — imprudent, that is, if he knew anything about the rumours afloat — seeing that soon after his visit at Courcy”
“And it must be admitted that Mr Palliser had been a little imprudent, -- imprudent, that is, if he knew anything about the rumours afloat, -- seeing that soon after his visit at Courcy Castle he had gone down to Lady Hartletop's place in Shropshire, at which the”
“He therefore fell into an opposite extreme; and, as it happens in such cases, and in order to recall the imprudent words which had escaped him, he pronounced others which were more imprudent still.”
“The letter - sent to the House of Representatives chairpersons, Bank Indonesia executives, the Finance Ministry and the media - points to several instances of so-called imprudent handling, the first being the government's legal basis for the bailout.”
“And those who believe in socialism think penalising the prudent to support the imprudent is a jolly good thing.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘imprudent’.
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GRE 2014
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@vcb.etym.prjct - SAT WORD DUMP - as ...
The words on this list SAT regulars that I haven't sorted and grouped yet. It's like my wordy holding pen. get it? holding the pen to write a word? HA! I love how lame my humor is.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
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encourage, chariot, precipitation, neurotic, feaster, unsightly, charisma, inheritor, masculine, honorable, contaminate, regulate and 103 more...
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predilection, explicit, appeal, supplication, appealing, enchanting, ovation, pertinent, apropos, opportunely, applicable, germane and 381 more...
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Sarah's words
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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abhor, absurd, anthropologist, artifact, bigot, bizarre, contemptuous, entreaty, fetish, imperative, imprudent, inanimate and 8 more...
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inkhorn, aplomb, apotheosis, asinine, avatar, bombastic, boorish, bromide, bucolic, cagey, canvass, digress and 991 more...
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Wharton, Edith. Age of Innocence. 1920
A list of difficult words for L2-12 learners.
Faust, erection, metropolitan, splendor, shabby, conservatives, cherished, inconvenient, clung, acoustics, coupe, scramble and 261 more...
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GRE list 1
Bloviate, Bacchanalia, mirth, covet, inconsequential, prescient, heresy, revelry, modality, gentrify, vitiate, tantalize and 182 more...
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acrimony, verisimilitude, tenebrious, tenebrous, dishabille, unfettered, deplorable, woebegone, credulity, naïveté, mitigate, meliorate and 475 more...
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amy's GRE 2012
gimmicks, kowtow, unpretentious, skeptical, cynical, somber, prevaricate, equivocate, requisite, embellish, impregnable, procrastinate and 307 more...
Tweets
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pradyumnaojha Manas is imprudent in boot-licking his superiors with the hope that they shall see him as a potential leader. Feb 15, 2013
rolig Surely one can be imprudent without being rude. Perhaps you are thinking of impudent? May 17, 2008
oroboros impRUDEnt May 17, 2008