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Definition: Imprudence |
ImprudenceNoun1. A lack of caution in practical affairs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "imprudence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Imprudence \Im*pru"dence\, noun. [Latin expression imprudentia: compare to the French expression imprudence. Compare to Improvidence.]. (references) |
| Antonym: prudence (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Neglect | Noun: neglect; carelessness; Adjective: trifling; Verb: negligence; omission, oversight, laches, default; supineness; (inactivity); inattention; nonchalance; (insensibility); imprudence, recklessness; slovenliness; (disorder), (dirt); improvidence; noncompletion; inexactness; (error). |
Rashness | Noun: rashness; Adjective: temerity, want of caution, imprudence, indiscretion; overconfidence, presumption, audacity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Imprudence |
| English words defined with "imprudence": Cholera morbus ♦ Unprudence. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "imprudence": Buttermilk ♦ Lantern. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "imprudence": IMPROVIDENCE. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Imprudence" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (carelessness, foolhardiness, frivolousness, imprudence, indiscretion, levity, rashness, recklessness, unwariness, unwisdom). |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Madame Magloire has had more difficulty in getting used to what she calls his imprudence. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | We can not, without committing a dangerous imprudence, abandon those measures of self protection which are adapted to our situation and to which, notwithstanding our pacific policy, the violence and injustice of others may again compel us to resort. |
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| "Imprudence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Imprudence" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "imprudence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | paturpshmëri (effrontery, mouth, neck, shamelessness), pamaturi (indiscretion), pakujdesi (carelessness, default, negligence). (various references) | |
Arabic | قلة أدب (impoliteness, incivility), تهور (extravagance, foolhardiness, haste, impetuosity, impulsiveness, madness, precipitate, precipitation, rashness, recklessness, temerity, uncontrollability), سفالة (baseness, depravity, ignobility, immorality, lowness), عدم إتزان, طيش (foolishness, frivolity, impetuosity, indiscretion, inexpediency, levity, libertinism, light-heartedness, lightness, prank, puerility, rashness, recklessness, temerity, thoughtlessness, unwisdom). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | необмисленост (inconsideration, indiscretion, precipitance, precipitation, prematurity, rashness, thoughtlessness), необмислена постъпка (precipitation), неблагоразумие (indiscretion, unwisdom), прибързаност (haste, hastiness, impetuosity, precipitance, precipitation, prematurity, rashness). (various references) | |
Chinese | 不检点. (various references) | |
Czech | nerozvážnost (flippancy, rashness, temerity, unbalance). (various references) | |
Farsi | نابخردی (Unreason), بی مبالاتی , بی تدبیری , بی احتیاطی (Improvidence). (various references) | |
French | imprudence. (various references) | |
German | unvorsichtigkeit (carelessness, incautiousness, rashness, unwariness), unklugheit. (various references) | |
Greek | ασυνεσία (indiscretion, inexpediency), απρονοησία (improvidence). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אי ודאות (recklessness, uncertainty), אי נבונות, חוסר זהירות. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tapintatlanság (blundering, brashness, gaffe, gaucherie, indelicacy, indiscretion), meggondolatlanság (foolhardiness, impetuosity, impudence, irresponsibility, precipitation, rashness, recklessness, thoughtlessness). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kurang hati-hati (inadvertent). (various references) | |
Italian | imprudenza (indiscretion, rashness), leggerezza (fickleness, levity, lightness, nimbleness, thinness). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 短慮 (quick temper), 抜け目 (an oversight), 浅慮 (indiscretion, thoughtlessness), 心得違い (misbehavior, misunderstanding), 不謹慎 (indiscretion), 不所存 (indiscretion), 不心得 (indiscretion). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たんりょ (quick temper), ふしょぞん (indiscretion), ふきんしん (indiscretion), ふこころえ (indiscretion), ぬけめ (an oversight), せんりょ (indiscretion, much thought, thoughtlessness), こころえちがい (misbehavior, misunderstanding). (various references) | |
Manx | neughoaieys (impropriety, indiscretion, lack of decency), neufeeudys (indiscretion, unbecomingness), neufeeudid (indecency, indiscretion), neuchreenaght (foolhardiness), mwannal (col, collar, fingerboard, neck, scruff), meenearey (audaciousness, audacity, boldness, brazeness, glaringness, immodesty, indelicacy, shamelessness), baaish (impudence, mortality, of death, temple). (various references) | |
Norwegian | ubetenksomhet. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imprudenceay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | imprudncia (indiscretion). (various references) | |
Romanian | imprudenţã (indiscretion, rashness), nechibzuinţã (improvidence, indiscretion, rashness, recklessness, thoughtlessness). (various references) | |
Russian | опрометчивость (haste, impetuosity, precipitance, rashness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nesmotrenost (improvidence, inadvertence, inadvertency, indiscretion, recklessness, thoughtlessness). (various references) | |
Spanish | imprudencia (foolishness, rashness, recklessness). (various references) | |
Swedish | oklokhet, oförstånd (folly). (various references) | |
Turkish | ihtiyatsızlık (improvidence, rashness, unwariness), tedbirsizlik (impolicy, improvidence, inconsiderateness, unwariness), düşüncesizlik (blindness, flightiness, headiness, impulsiveness, inconsiderateness, indiscretion, levity, offhandedness, recklessness, thoughtlessness, wantonness), akılsızlık (absurdness, fatuity, fatuousness, stupidity, unreason, unwisdom, vacancy). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нерозсудливість (derring-do, fondness, indiscretion), необачний вчинок. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự không thận trọng (imprudency, imprudentness), hành động khinh suất (imprudency, inconsideration). (various references) | |
Welsh | annoethineb (folly, unwisdom), anghallineb (unwisdom). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "imprudence": imprudences. (additional references) | |
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"Imprudence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: imprudance, imprudece. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "imprudence" (pronounced i'mpruw"duns) |
| 7 | -p r uw" d u n s | jurisprudence, prudence. |
| 4 | -d u n s | abundance, accordance, ascendance, attendance, avoidance, cadence, coincidence, confidence, correspondence, credence, decadence, dependence, dissidence, evidence, guidance, impedance, incidence, independence, interdependence, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, precedence, Providence, residence, riddance, subsidence, transcendence. |
| 3 | -u n s | absence, abstinence, acceptance, abeyance, abhorrence, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, assistance, assurance, audience, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, dalliance, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, importance, impotence, inadvertence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, province, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-m-n-p-r-u" | |
-1 letter: impudence. | |
-2 letters: endermic, pedicure, perineum, premedic, prudence, reinduce, unpriced, unprimed. | |
-3 letters: cerumen, crimped, crumped, demirep, dumpier, endemic, epicure, epiderm, ermined, eupneic, impeder, inducer, numeric, pierced, premune, pumiced, pumicer, repined, ripened, umpired, unrimed. | |
-4 letters: cerium, cinder, creped, crinum, decern, deicer, demure, denier, deperm, dermic, dumper, edenic, empire, endure, enured, epimer, ermine, icemen, impede, impend, impure. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-m-n-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: imprudences. | |
+4 letters: uncomputerized. | |
+5 letters: noncomputerized, uncomprehending. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Quotations: Speeches 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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