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Definition: Impudent |
ImpudentAdjective1. Marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior". 2. Improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "impudent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Impudent \Im"pu*dent\, adjective. [Latin expression impudens, -entis; prefix im- not pudens ashamed, modest, present participle of pudere to feel shame: compare to the French expression impudent.]. (references) |
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Multilingual Slang | Hungarian (pofátlan ). (references) |
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Synonyms: ImpudentSynonyms: flip (adj), fresh (adj), impertinent (adj), insolent (adj), overbold (adj), sassy (adj), saucy (adj), smart (adj), snotty-nosed (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discourtesy | Uncivil, ungracious, unceremonious; cool; pert, forward, obtrusive, impudent, rude, saucy, precocious. |
Insolence | Impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care, rollicking; jaunty, janty; roistering, blustering, hectoring, swaggering, vaporing; thrasonic, fire eating, "full of sound and fury ". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You're the most impudent scoundrel I've ever known (Topaze; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Benn W. Levy) You impudent hussy (My Fair Lady; writing credit: George Bernard Shaw; Alan Jay Lerner) You know you're very impudent. (The Adventures of Robin Hood; writing credit: Norman Reilly Raine ; Seton I. Miller) | |
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Vice President Spiro T. Agnew | A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals. |
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| "Impudent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Impudent" is used about 50 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% | 50 | 48,117 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "impudent": grow impudent ♦ impudent person. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
impudent | 10 |
impudent oyster | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "impudent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i paturp (cheeky, conscienceless, impertinent, insolent, lubricious, saucy, shameless, unashamed, unblushing), i pafytyrë (barefaced, impertinent, insolent, nervy, perky, pert), i pacipë (arrogant, audacious, barefaced, brassy, brazen, brazen faced, bumptious, cheeky, contumelious, coxy, immodest, impertinent, insolent, nervy, perky, pert, saucy, shameless, unblushing). (various references) | |
Arabic | ماجن (profligate, shameless), وقح (abrasive, barefaced, blatant, bold, brazen, cool, flippant, hardy, impertinent, insolent, nervy, off hand, overbold, pert, presuming, presumptuous, rascal, rude, sassy, saucy, scamp, shameless, smart), صفيق (brazen, cheeky, overbold, shameless). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нахален (arrogant, cheeky, contumelious, flip, forward, huffish, insolent, jumped-up, malapert, nervy, obtrusive, offensive, perky, presuming, sassy, saucy, snotty), нагъл (bold, glib, impertinent, insolent, rousing), безсрамен (barefaced, brassy, brazen, graceless, immodest, outre, shameless, unabashed, unashamed, unscrupulous), безочлив (assured, audacious, brash, brazenfaced, graceless, immodest, impertinent, saucy, unabashed, unashamed), дебелоок. (various references) | |
Chinese | 无礼 (impertinent, impolite, impoliteness, irreverence). (various references) | |
Czech | opovážlivý (daredevil), nestydatý (barefaced, insolent, shameless, unashamed), nestoudný (barefaced, brassy, brazen faced, immodest, impertinent, nasty, shameless), drzý (audacious, barefaced, bold, brash, brazen, bumptious, cheeky, chesty, cool, fresh, impertinent, insolent, nervy, pert, saucy, smart, unbridled). (various references) | |
Danish | langfinger (impudent finger), digitus obscoenus (impudent finger), digitus impudicus (impudent finger). (various references) | |
Dutch | schaamteloos (abandoned, abandonedly, brazen), onbeschaamd (abandoned, brazen, impertinent, rude), driest (abandoned, brazen, daring), brutaal (abandoned, audacious, bold, brazen, daring, impertinent, intrepid, rude). (various references) | |
Farsi | پررو (Barefaced, Brassy, Cheeky, Fresh, Immodest, Nervy, Pert, Presuming), چشم سفید, گستاخ (Arrogant, Barefaced, Bold, Boldface, Brash, Cheeky, Forward, Immodest, Impertinent, Indecent, Insolent, Jaunty, Perky, Pert, Presumptuous, Rude, Unabashed, Unshaped(En), Wanton). (various references) | |
Finnish | röyhkeä (arrogant, cheeky, insolent), julkea (arrogant, brazen, gross, insolent), hävytön (insolent, shameless). (various references) | |
French | impudent (impertinent), effronté. (various references) | |
Frisian | skamteleas (abandoned, brazen). (various references) | |
German | unverschämt (abandoned, barefaced, blatant, bold, brash, brazen, brazen faced, brazenly, contumelious, exorbitant, impertinent, impertinently, impudently, insolent, insolently, insulting, nervy, obscene, offensive, offensively, outrageous, rude, sassy, saucy, tacky, unashamedly, unblushing, unconscionable, unconscionably, wicked), impertinent (abandoned, arrogant, brazen, haughty, impertinent, rude). (various references) | |
Greek | ιταμός (defiant, insolent), ξετσίπωτος (cheeky, saucy, shameless), ξεδιάντροποσ (unblushing), ασύστολος (brazen, shameless), αναιδήσ (audacious, barefaced, brassy, cheeky, cocky, fresh, immodest, impudence, saucy, squirt), αναίσχυντοσ (imprudent, shameless), θρασύσ (audacious, bold, cheeky, daring, nervy, pert, presumptuous). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עז מצח (insolent), חוצפן (impertinent, insolent), חוצפני (brazen, insolent), חצוף (bold, brassy, fresh, impertinent, insolent, nervy, pert, rude). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szemtelen (arrogant, audacious, be insolent, brash, brassy, brazen, cheeky, contemptuous, immodest, impertinent, insolent, leer, malapert, naughty, perky, pert, presumptuous, sassy, saucy, shameless, unblushing), pimasz (brash, brassy, brazen, cheeky, cocky, forward, hubristic, impertinent, insolent, nervy, sassy, saucy, saucy bit), arcátlan (audacious, baldface, barefaced, bold, boldfaced, brazen, brazen faced, cheeky, graceless, impertinent, insolent, nervy, perky, shameless, unblushing). (various references) | |
Indonesian | galak (fierce, frantic, gruff, plucky, sharp and mean, snappish, surly, vicious), brutal (brutal, elfish). (various references) | |
Italian | impudente (barefaced, brazen, cool, jackanapes, overbold, shameless), svergognato (brazen, shameless), sfrontato (cheeky, unblushing), sfacciato (barefaced, blatant, bold, brazen, cheeky, cool, fresh, impertinent, insolent, jackanapes, overbold, sassy, saucy), birichino (arch, cheeky youngster, little scamp, mischievous, roguish, romp). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 臆面もない (audacious, bold, unabashed, unashamed), 厚かましい (brazen, shameless), 洒落臭い (cheeky, impertinent), ふさぎ込む (fast, loose, messy, slovenly, to mope, untidy, with a whiff), 小癪 , 図々しい (shameless), 図図しい (shameless). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おくめんもない (audacious, bold, unabashed, unashamed), ずうずうしい (shameless), しゃらくくさい (cheeky, impertinent), しゃらくさい (cheeky, impertinent), ふてぶて , こしゃく, あつかましい (brazen, shameless). (various references) | |
Korean | 염치없는. (various references) | |
Norwegian | uforskammet (impertinent, insolent). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | impudentay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | impudente (immodest, impertinent, shameless, venturous), sem vergonha (barefaced, licentious, profligate, shameless, unashamed, unblushing, unscrupulous, wasteful), descarado (barefaced, brass, brazen, cheeky, cool, nervy, pert, quean, saucy, shameless, unabashed, unblushing). (various references) | |
Romanian | impudic (improper), obraznic (audacious, bad, barefaced, bold, boldly, brazenly, cheekily, cheeky, cocky, contemptuous, cool, disobedient, flippant, forward, fresh, graceless, impertinent, insolent, nasty, naughty, nervy, obtrusive, perky, pert, pertly, presumptuous, provocative, rebellious, sauce box, saucy, unruly, untoward, uppish), neruşinat (barefaced, bold, brassy, brazen faced, cheeky, frontless, graceless, indecent, nervy, outrageous, ribald, saucy, shameless, unscrupulous), neobrãzat (bold, brazen faced, cheeky, immodestly, nervy, shameless), lipsit de pudoare, fãrã obraz. (various references) | |
Russian | наглый (assured, barefaced, bold, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, brazen-faced, flip, immodest, impertinent, insolent, perky, saucy, snippy, unashamed, unblushing, uppish), бесстыдный (blatant, brazen-faced, graceless, shameless, unblushing). (various references) | |
Scottish | ladarna (bold, shameless), beadaidh (capricious, fastidious). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | drzak (audacious, be insolent, brash, brazenfaced, cheeky, daring, flip, impertinent, insolent, nervy, overbold, pert, presuming, presumptuous, saucy, temerarious, venturesome), bezočan (arrant, audacious, barefaced, nefarious, reprobate), bestidan (arrant, barefaced, bold, obscene, shameless, unashamed, unblushing). (various references) | |
Spanish | insolente (impertinent, impolite, insolent, pert, rude, snippy, upstart), impudente, lanzado (brazen, hurled, running), desmesurado (boundless, disproportionate, enormous, excessive, exorbitant, over), descarado (barefaced, blatant, bold, bold-faced, bounder, brash, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, cheeky, forward, free, fresh, hussy, impertinent, nervy, overbold, perky, sassy, saucy), atrevido (audacious, bold, daredevil, daring, foppish, forward, insolent, naughty, pert, presumptuous, venturesome). (various references) | |
Swedish | fräck (audacious, brash, brassy, brazen, cheeky, cool, daring, fresh, impertinent, indecent, insolent, lippy, nervy, rude, saucy, wicked). (various references) | |
Tagalog | waláng-hiyâ (abandoned, brazen). (various references) | |
Turkish | yüzsüz (bare faced, barefaced, bold-faced, brash, brassy, brazenfaced, cheeky, conscience-proof, fresh, gay, hard bitten, hard boiled, hard-nosed, Hardy, nervy, pushful, pushing, ribald, saucy, shameless, unabashed, unashamed, unblushing), utanmaz (bare faced, barefaced, bold, bold-faced, brazenfaced, gay, immodest, ribald, sassy, shameless, unabashed, unashamed, unblushing, unembarassed), terbiyesiz (bad, blackguard, blackguardly, broad, caddish, churlish, coarse, coarse grained, dirty, graceless, ill bred, ill mannered, immodest, immoral, impertinent, impolite, improper, indelicate, inelegant, insolent, mannerless, naughty, ribald, risky, risque, rude, scabrous, shameless, uncultured, underbred, undressed, unmannerly, unpolished), saygısız (brash, discourteous, disregardful, disrespectful, flip, flippant, hoggish, impertinent, impious, inconsiderate, insolent, irreverent, rude, stroppy, undutiful, unfilial, ungalant, unmannerly), küstah (arrogant, assuming, audacious, bold, bold-faced, brash, brassy, cheeky, chesty, cool, flip, flippant, fresh, ill mannered, impertinent, insolent, insulting, malapert, nervy, overbearing, presuming, presumptuous, stroppy, too familiar, unabashed, wise), arsız (bare faced, barefaced, bold, bold-faced, brassy, calm, cheeky, daft, flip, flippant, fresh, hard bitten, Hardy, malapert, perky, pert, Randy, sassy, shameless, unabashed, unblushing, vigorous), arlanmaz (abandoned, brazen). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нахабний (audacious, bold-faced, cheeky, contumelious, coxy, necky), безсоромний (barefaced, bestial, cynical, graceless, obscene, shameless, unabashed, unblushing). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vô liêm sỉ láo xược, trơ trẽn (frontless, immodest), trơ tráo (bold, bold-faced, cheeky, immodest), mặt dạn mày dày (audacious, barefaced, cheeky, cool), hỗn xược (brash, cheeky, contumelious, saucy). (various references) | |
Welsh | wynebgaled (barefaced), talgryf (robust, sturdy), haerllug (audacious, blatant, brazen, importunate), digywilydd (audacious, blatant). (various references) | |
Yucatec | xma' su'tal (abandoned, brazen). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adtrita, adtriti, adtritis, adtritum, adtritus, improbus, impudens, inpudentem, lascivus, procaci, procacissimam, procaciter, procax, protervi, protervum, protervus. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 7, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Eita epilabomenh efilhsen auton anaidei de proswpw proseipen autw |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Adprehensumque deosculatur iuvenem et procaci vultu blanditur dicens |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And the cayte yunge man she kisseth; and with wowende chere she flatereth, |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him: |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 7, Verse 13 |
| Cebuano | Busa iyang hidakpan siya, ug gihagkan siya, Ug uban sa usa ka magahing nawong siya miingon kaniya: |
| Croatian | i uhvati ga i poljubi i reèe mu bezobrazna lica: |
| Danish | hun griber i ham og kysser ham og siger med frække Miner; |
| Dutch | En zij greep hem aan, en kuste hem; zij sterkte haar aangezicht, en zeide tot hem: |
| Finnish | Hän tarttui nuorukaiseen, suuteli häntä ja julkeasti katsoen sanoi hänelle: |
| French | Elle le saisit et l`embrassa, Et d`un air effronté lui dit: |
| German | Und erwischte ihn und küßte ihn unverschämt und sprach zu ihm: |
| Haitian Creole | Li pase bra l' nan kou ti jennonm lan. Li bo li, li klere je l' nan je l', li di l': |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ia merangkul pemuda itu dan menciumnya. Tanpa malu-malu berkatalah ia, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka ditangkapnya akan orang muda itu, diciumnya akan dia, maka dengan muka tebal ia berkata kepadanya demikian: |
| Italian | Lo afferra, lo bacia e con sfacciataggine gli dice: |
| Maori | Koia i hopukia ai ia e ia, kei te kihi i a ia, a ka mea atu ki a ia, me te whakatoi ano i tona mata, |
| Norwegian | Og hun tok fatt på ham og kysset ham, og med frekt åsyn sa hun til ham: |
| Portuguese | Pegou dele, pois, e o beijou; e com semblante impudico lhe disse: |
| Rumanian | Ea l -a kmbrqyiwat wi l -a sqrutat, wi cu o fayq fqrq ruwine i -a zis: |
| Russian | пОБ УИЧБФЙМБ ЕЗП, ГЕМПЧБМБ ЕЗП, Й У ВЕУУФЩДОЩН МЙГПН ЗПЧПТЙМБ ЕНХ: |
| Swedish | Hon tog nu honom fatt och kysste honom och sade till honom med fräckhet i sin uppsyn: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "impudent": impudently. (additional references) | |
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"Impudent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: impude, impulent, imputent, imputint, inpudent, ipsden. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "impudent" (pronounced 'Im"pu*dent'): Accident, Ardent, Assident, Bident, Cadent, Candent, Claudent, Confident, Credent, Frondent, improvident, imprudent, Misconfident, Miscredent, Noncoincident, Occident, Overconfident, Overprovident, Prefident, Provident, Prudent, resplendent, Rident, scandent, Sedent, self-confident, self-evident, Splendent, strident, student, Unprovident, Unprudent. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-m-n-p-t-u" | |
-1 letter: imputed, minuted, mutined, pinetum. | |
-2 letters: dipnet, dunite, impend, impute, minted, minuet, minute, mutine, pitmen, pundit, punted, tedium, tumped, united, untied, uptime. | |
-3 letters: demit, denim, imped, indue, inept, input, mined, muted, nudie, pined, teind, tempi, tepid, timed, tined, tumid, tuned, umped, unite, unmet, untie, upend. | |
-4 letters: deni, dent, diet, dime, dine, dint, dipt, dite, duet. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-m-n-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: imprudent. | |
+2 letters: importuned, impudently, multipaned. | |
+3 letters: antependium, impoundment, imprudently, manipulated. | |
+4 letters: antependiums, impoundments, multipronged, pseudonymity. | |
+5 letters: pneumonitides, uncomplicated, unimplemented, unmanipulated. | |
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