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Definition: Imprudent |
ImprudentAdjective1. 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. 2. Lacking wise self-restraint; "an imprudent remark". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "imprudent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Imprudent \Im*pru"dent\, adjective. [Latin expression imprudens; prefix im- not prudens prudent: compare to the French expression imprudent. See Prudent, and compare to Improvident.]. (references) |
Synonyms: ImprudentSynonyms: foolish, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious. (additional references) |
| Antonym: prudent (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Neglect | Supine; (inactive); inattentive; insouciant; (indifferent); imprudent, reckless; slovenly; (disorderly), (dirty); inexact; (erroneous); improvident. |
Rashness | Adjective: rash, incautious, indiscreet; imprudent, improvident, temerarious; uncalculating; heedless; careless; (neglectful); without ballast, heels over head, head over heels; giddy; (inattentive); wanton, reckless, wild, madcap; desperate, devil-may-care. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Imprudent |
| English words defined with "imprudent": imprudently ♦ trick ♦ Unpolicied, Unpolitic, Unprudent, Unprudential. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "imprudent": Lapsus Linguæ ♦ ORBIGNYA CUATRECASANA. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "imprudent": Unprudential. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Imprudent" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (careless, foolhardy, imprudent, incautious, indiscreet, rash, reckless, unadvised, unguarded, unwarily, unwary, unwise, weak), Romanian (ill-advised, imprudent, incautious, rash, unadvised, unwise). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Le Voyageur imprudent (1982) | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | It would nevertheless be wrong and imprudent to entrust the secret knowledge or experience of the atomic bomb, which the United States, Great Britain, and Canada now share, to the world organization, while it is still in its infancy. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Elton is a very good sort of man, and a very respectable vicar of Highbury, but not at all likely to make an imprudent match |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The intrepid and imprudent Fannicot was one of the killed by this volley |
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| "Imprudent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Imprudent" is used about 51 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 51 | 47,619 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "imprudent": have too many eggs in one basket imprudent. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
imprudent | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "imprudent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i pamatur (inadvisable, indiscreet, rash, reckless, spanless, unguarded, unmeasured, unsounded, unwary, unwise), i pakujdesshëm (careless, incautious, negligent, ownerless, reckless, remiss, unadvised, unguarded, unheeding), i nxituar (cursory, hasty, headstrong, heady, hot-blooded, hot-headed, hurried, precipitant, premature, previous, rash, reckless, slapdash). (various references) | |
Arabic | متهور (audacious, blind, blindfold, blindfolded, brash, careless, daredevil, daredevilry, desperate, devil may care, excessive, extravagant, foolhardy, harum scarum, hasty, headlong, heady, heedless, hot-headed, immaterial, impetuous, impish, impulsive, inconsiderate, light-headed, madcap, precipitate, precipitous, rash, reckless, slapdash, temerarious, too hasty, unrestrained, unwary), غير حكيم (impolitic, indiscreet, inexperienced, injudicious, unadvised, unwise, weak), طائش (bad, careless, flighty, foolhardy, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, hasty, heedless, impetuous, inadvertent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, libertine, light, light minded, light-headed, lunatic, mad, madcap, muddle-headed, popinjay, random, rash, rattle-brained, reckless, scatter-brain, scatter-brained, scatty, stray, stunned, thoughtless, unadvised, unwise), 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, impolitic, 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). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | необмислен (blind, crude, hasty, heedless, ill-considered, ill-judged, impetuous, incautious, inconsiderate, light hearted, light-headed, overbold, precipitate, precipitatious, rash, reckless, snap, thoughtless, unadvised, unconsidered, unguarded, unthinking, unwary, wild), неблагоразумен (ill-advised, ill-judged, injudicious, unadvised, unwise), непредпазлив (heedless, incautious, indiscreet, unguarded, unwary). (various references) | |
Chinese | 不明智 (injudicious, unwise). (various references) | |
Czech | nerozvážný (adventurous, inconsiderate, injudicious, thoughtless), neprozřetelný, neopatrný (careless, heedless, incautious, uncanny, unwary). (various references) | |
Farsi | بی تدبیر (Brassy), بی احتیاط (Improvident, Incautious, Indiscreet, Injudicious, Rash, Unadvised). (various references) | |
Finnish | varomaton (heedless, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, thoughtless), epäviisas (ill-advised, inadvisable, unwise). (various references) | |
French | imprudent. (various references) | |
German | unklug (foolish, ill-advised, impolitic, imprudently, inexpedient, injudicious, misguided, unintelligent, unsound, unwise, unwisely). (various references) | |
Greek | ασύνετοσ (ill-advised, impolitic, inalienability, indiscreet, inexpedient, injudicious, unwise), αναίσχυντοσ (impudent, shameless), απρονόητοσ (improvident). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לא זהיר (incautious, reckless, unguarded, unwary). (various references) | |
Hungarian | meggondolatlan (blindfold, blundering, foolhardy, hare-brained, hasty, headlong, heedless, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-judged, impetuous, impolitic, impudent, incautious, injudicious, precipitate, rash, reckless, thoughtless, to lack ballast, unadvised, unreflecting, unthinking, unwary). (various references) | |
Italian | imprudente (impolitic, incautious, indiscreet, rash, unwary, unwise), malaccorto (ill-advised, misguided, rash, unwise). (various references) | |
Korean | 경솔한 (unadvised). (various references) | |
Manx | neughoaieagh (indiscreet, uncivil), neuchreeney (foolhardy, ill-advised, improvident, injudicious), mwannalagh (cheeky, giraffe, long-necked, necked), meeneareydagh, meenearagh (audacious, bold, brazen, glaring, glaring of injustice, immodest, ribald, shameless, unashamed, unblushing), beealagh (bit, thick-lipped), baaishagh (frontal, temporal), anchreeney (impolitic). (various references) | |
Norwegian | uklok, ubetenksom (inconsiderate, indiscreet). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imprudentay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | imprudente (audacious, brash, foolhardy, hasty, headlong, heedless, hurry, ill-considered, impolitic, inconsiderate, injudicious, rash, reckless, thoughtless, unadvised, undiplomatic, unthinking, unwary, unwise), precipitado (brash, cursory, desperate, hasty, headlong, heady, heedless, hot-blooded, hurried, hurry, impolitic, precipitant, previous, rash, unadvised, unthinking, unwary, unwise). (various references) | |
Romanian | imprudent (ill-advised, incautious, rash, unadvised, unwise), neînţelept (inconsiderate). (various references) | |
Russian | опрометчивый (harebrained, headlong, heady, hot-headed, ill-advised, impetuous, incautious, overbold, precipitate, rash, reckless, unwary), неосмотрительный (ill-judged, thoughtless, unchary), неблагоразумный (ill-advised, indiscreet, inexpedient, unreasonable, unwise). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nesmotren (heedless, ill-advised, improvident, inadvertent, incautious, reckless, unwary), nepromišljen (ill-advised, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, mindless, thoughtless, unadvised, unthinking). (various references) | |
Spanish | imprudente (careless, foolish, ill-judged, indiscreet, injudicious, rash, unwary, unwise). (various references) | |
Swedish | oklok (ill-advised, ill-judged, impolitic, inadvisable, inexpedient, unadvised, unwise), oförsiktig (careless, improvident, incautious, indiscreet, unwary). (various references) | |
Turkish | ihtiyatsız (heedless, ill-advised, incautious, inconsiderate, unguarded, unwary), tedbirsiz (ill-advised, ill-judged, improvident, incautious, inconsiderate, injudicious, unadvised, unwary), düşüncesiz (blind, blindfold, brusque, careless, flighty, freewheeling, gauche, half-baked, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heady, ill-advised, ill-judged, impulsive, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, mindless, out of turn, rash, reckless, slapdash, tactless, thoughtless, unadvised, unmindful, unreflecting, unthinking, wanton, without tact, witless). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нерозсудливий (bullheaded, fond, fool, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, precipitate, reckless, unadvised, unreasonable, unwise), необачний (harebrained, hasteful, hasty, headlong, hot-brained, ill-advised, overbold, over-hasty, precipitant, slap bang, slapdash). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | khinh suất (hare-brained, harum-scarum, hasty, incautious, inconsiderate, precipitate, reckless, thoughtless, unadvised, unreflecting), không thận trọng (thoughtless, unwary). (various references) | |
Welsh | annoeth (unwise). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | temerarius, temerarus, temerarus, temerarius. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "imprudent": imprudently. (additional references) | |
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"Imprudent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: imprucent, inprudent, iprudent. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "imprudent" (pronounced i'mpruw"dunt) |
| 7 | -p r uw" d u n t | prudent. |
| 5 | -uw" d u n t | student. |
| 4 | -d u n t | antecedent, antioxidant, ardent, abundant, accident, ascendant, attendant, coincident, confident, corespondent, correspondent, decadent, decedent, defendant, dependent, descendant, descendent, despondent, discordant, dissident, evident, incident, independent, interdependent, mordant, nonresident, overconfident, oxidant, pendant, precedent, provident, redundant, resident, resplendent, respondent, retardant, rodent, strident, superintendent, transcendent, trident, verdant. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antidepressant, antigovernment, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, accelerant, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, cormorant, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, inadvertent, incandescent, debarment, debasement, decent, declarant, decongestant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overpayment, overstatement, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resilient, resistant, resonant, restatement, resultant, resurgent, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, stringent, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-m-n-p-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: impudent, rudiment, unmitred, unprimed. | |
-2 letters: dumpier, imputed, imputer, intrude, minuted, minuter, mutined, pinetum, printed, prudent, trumped, turdine, umpired, unmiter, unmitre, unrimed, untired, untried, uptrend. | |
-3 letters: dipnet, dumper, dunite, impend, impure, impute, inured, iterum, minder, minted, minter, minuet, minute, mitred, murein, murine, mutine, permit, pinder, pitmen, primed, pruned, pterin, pundit, punier, punted, punter, purine. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-m-n-p-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: importuned. | |
+2 letters: imprudently. | |
+3 letters: multipronged. | |
+5 letters: uncomputerized, unpremeditated. | |
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