Impolitic

Definition: Impolitic

Impolitic

Adjective

1. Not politic; "an impolitic approach to a sensitive issue".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "impolitic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)

Etymology: Impolitic \Im*pol"i*tic\, adjective. [Prefix im- not politic; compare to French impolitique.]. (references)

Synonym: Impolitic

Discourtesy

Untactful, impolitic, undiplomatic; artless;

Crosswords: Impolitic

Books

• Impolitic Bodies: Poetry, Saints, and Society in Fifteenth-Century England: The Work of Osbern Bokenham (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

i pakëshillueshëm (inadvisable). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غير حكيم (imprudent, indiscreet, inexperienced, injudicious, unadvised, unwise, weak), ‏أحمق (ass, barmy, berk, bonkers, brutish, childish, chuckle-head, chump, cuckoo, daft, empty, empty headed, fantastic, fat, fathead, fatuous, foolish, footless, goofy, goon, haywire, idiotic, imprudent, indiscreet, inept, injudicious, insensate, jerk, lemon, mad, meaningless, nit, nitwit, nonsensical, numskull, ornery, oyster, perverse, pointless, prat, screwball, senseless, sod, stupid, unwise, vacant, wacky, weak, weak-minded, whacky, witless, wood-headed, zany), ‏أخرق (awkward, bungling, clumsy, elephantine, gauche, gawky, left handed, lubberly, lump, mad, maladroit, meaningless, nincompoop, oafish, ponderous, preposterous, senseless, shy, uncouth, ungainly, unhappy, wooden). (various references)

Bulgarian 

неразумен (extravagant, indiscreet, injudicious, insensate, irrational, reasonless, senseless, thoughtless, unreasonable, unreasoning, unreflecting, unwise), неполитичен. (various references)

Chinese 

失策 (Impolitical). (various references)

Czech

nevhodný (clumsy, ill timed, improper, inadequate, inadvisable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incongruous, inconvenient, ineligible, inexpedient, inopportune, misbecoming, off-key, unappropriated, unapt, unbecoming, uncalled for, undesirable, undue, unfit, unlikely, unlucky, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuitable, untimely). (various references)

French

impolitique, maladroit. (various references)

German

unklug (foolish, ill-advised, imprudent, imprudently, inexpedient, injudicious, misguided, unintelligent, unsound, unwise, unwisely). (various references)

Greek 

ασύνετοσ (ill-advised, imprudent, inalienability, indiscreet, inexpedient, injudicious, unwise), ασύμφοροσ (inexpedient, unadvisable, uneconomic, unprofitable), απρεπήσ (graceless, improper, indecent, indecorous, inept, risque, scabrous, tactless, unbecoming, uncalled for, undue, unseemly). (various references)

Hungarian

nem politikus, oktalan (causeless, imprudent, irrational, preposterous, unwise), meggondolatlan (blindfold, blundering, foolhardy, hare-brained, hasty, headlong, heedless, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-judged, impetuous, imprudent, impudent, incautious, injudicious, precipitate, rash, reckless, thoughtless, to lack ballast, unadvised, unreflecting, unthinking, unwary), célt tévesztett. (various references)

Italian

inopportuno (Amiss, awkward, ill timed, ill-judged, inopportune, unsuitable, untimely, wrong), imprudente (imprudent, incautious, indiscreet, rash, unwary, unwise), impolitico. (various references)

Korean 

부분별한 (Impolitical). (various references)

Manx

anchreeney (imprudent). (various references)

Pig Latin

impoliticay.(various references)

Portuguese

imprudente (audacious, brash, foolhardy, hasty, headlong, heedless, hurry, ill-considered, imprudent, inconsiderate, injudicious, rash, reckless, thoughtless, unadvised, undiplomatic, unthinking, unwary, unwise), impol�tico, precipitado (brash, cursory, desperate, hasty, headlong, heady, heedless, hot-blooded, hurried, hurry, imprudent, precipitant, previous, rash, unadvised, unthinking, unwary, unwise), pouco oportuno. (various references)

Romanian

nechibzuit (brainless, desperate, incautious, inconsiderate, reckless, temerarious, thoughtless, unadvised, unreasonable, unthinking, unwise), lipsit de tact (clumsy), lipsit de înţelepciune, fãrã tact. (various references)

Russian 

неполитичный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nepolitičan (unpolitical). (various references)

Spanish

impolítico. (various references)

Swedish

oklok (ill-advised, ill-judged, imprudent, inadvisable, inexpedient, unadvised, unwise). (various references)

Turkish

uygunsuz (derogatory, illegitimate, improper, inapposite, inappropriate, incongruous, inconvenient, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, ineligible, inexpedient, infelicitous, malapropos, near the knuckle, obnoxious, unbecoming, unbefitting, unbeseeming, uncalled for, unchristian, uncomely, unhandsome, unpropitious, unseemly, unsuitable, untoward, wrong), politik olmayan (unpolitic, unpolitical), aykırı (anomalous, anti-, antithetic, antithetical, athwart, contradictious, contradictory, counter, crossways, crosswise, gainst, heterodox, incongruous, inconsistent, repugnant, thwart, transverse). (various references)

Ukrainian

нерозумний (brute, crack-brained, footling, ill-judged, insensate, silly, unreasonable, wacky, witless), неполітичний, недоречний (ill timed, ill-placed, impertinent, inapposite, inappropriate, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsequential, irrelevant, mistaken, uncalled for, unhappy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vụng; thất sách (unpolitic), không khôn ngoan (ill-judged, inadvisable, unpolitic, unwise), không chính trị (unpolitic). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "impolitic": impolitical, impolitically, impoliticly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Impolitic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: impolistic. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: implicit.

-2 letters: politic.

-3 letters: miotic.

-4 letters: clipt, clomp, compt, licit, limit, lotic, optic, picot, pilot, topic.

-5 letters: clip, clit, clop, clot, coil, colt, comp, impi, limo, limp, loci, loti, milo, milt, moil, molt, omit, otic, pili, plot, tipi, toil, topi.

+2 letters: implication, impolitical, impoliticly.

+3 letters: complicities, implications, pictorialism.

+4 letters: amplification, compatibility, impolitically, pictorialisms, semipolitical.

+5 letters: amplifications, compulsivities, misapplication, multiplication, nonimplication, optimistically, oversimplistic, poikilothermic, simplification.