Injudicious

Definition: Injudicious

Injudicious

Adjective

1. Lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise; "an injudicious measure"; "the result of an injudicious decision".

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

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

Etymology: Injudicious \In`ju*di"cious\, adjective. [Prefix in- not judicious; compare to French injudicieux.]. (references)

Synonyms: Injudicious

Imbecility Folly

Foolish, unwise, injudicious, improper, unreasonable, without reason, ridiculous, absurd, idiotic, silly, stupid, asinine; ill-imagined, ill-advised, ill-judged, ill-devised; mal entendu; inconsistent, irrational, unphilosophical; extravagant; (nonsensical); sleeveless, idle; pointless, useless; inexpedient; frivolous; (trivial).

Crosswords: Injudicious

Books

• Injudicious Judge (reference)

• The Highly Opinionated Newsletter: A Sometimes Judicious Sometimes Injudicious Dissent from the Majority Opinion on the Current Art Scene (reference)

• The Injudicious Judge (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Because antimotility agents are now available over the counter, their injudicious use is of concern. (references)

Human Rights

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Human rights activists who claimed that the police SSU used excessive and injudicious force leading to Browne's death had called for the investigation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

i pamenduar (headlong, ill-considered, ill-judged, rash, thoughtless, undigested, unreasoned, unthinking), i pamend (brainless, dizzy, dumb, foolish, inane, mad, mindless, pinheaded, rattle-brained, rattle-headed). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غير حكيم (impolitic, imprudent, indiscreet, inexperienced, unadvised, unwise, weak), ‏طائش (bad, careless, flighty, foolhardy, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, hasty, heedless, impetuous, imprudent, inadvertent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, 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, imprudent, indiscreet, inept, 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 

неуместен (ill-judged, impertinent, improper, inapposite, inappropriate, incongruous, inconsequent, inept, inexpedient, inopportune, irrelevant, mistaken, out of place, unadvised, uncalled for, unfortunate, unseasonable, unsuitable), неразумен (extravagant, impolitic, indiscreet, insensate, irrational, reasonless, senseless, thoughtless, unreasonable, unreasoning, unreflecting, unwise), неблагоразумен (ill-advised, ill-judged, imprudent, unadvised, unwise), неправилен (abnormal, anomalous, awry, defective, erroneous, false, faulty, improper, incorrect, irregular, lame, mis-, mistaken, unequal, unfair, untrue, vicious, wrongful), неподходящ (ill-suited, improper, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incorrect, ineligible, inept, infelicitous, inopportune, irrelative, irrelevant, out of place, unadapted, unapt, unbecoming, unbeseeming, uncongenial, undignified, undue, unequal, unfit, unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited, untoward, wrong), безразсъден (daredevil, desperate, devil may care, irrational, rash, reasonless, reckless, temerarious, unreasonable, unreasoning). (various references)

Chinese 

不明智 (imprudent, unwise). (various references)

Czech

neuvážený (ill-judged, unadvised, unthinking), nerozvážný (adventurous, imprudent, inconsiderate, thoughtless), nemoudrý (unwise). (various references)

Danish

uforsvarlig receptudskrivning af medicin som skaber afhaengighed (injudicious prescribing of dependence-producing drugs). (various references)

Dutch

onoverlegd voorschrijven van gewenninggevende medicamenten (injudicious prescribing of dependence-producing drugs). (various references)

Farsi 

غیرعاقلانه (Unwise), بی عقل (Insane, Unmeaning), بی خردانه , بی احتیاط (Improvident, Imprudent, Incautious, Indiscreet, Rash, Unadvised). (various references)

Finnish

ymmärtämätön (foolish, indiscreet, unwise). (various references)

French

injudicieux, peu judicieux (indiscreet, inexpedient), malavisé (inexpedient). (various references)

German

unüberlegt (ill-considered, inconsiderately, indiscriminate, indiscriminately, injudiciously, rash, thoughtless, thoughtlessly, unconsidered, unpremeditated, wild). (various references)

Greek 

ασύνετοσ (ill-advised, impolitic, imprudent, inalienability, indiscreet, inexpedient, unwise). (various references)

Hebrew 

לא מחוכם, לא � בון (unwise). (various references)

Hungarian

idõszerûtlen (inopportune, timeless, unseasonable), meggondolatlan (blindfold, blundering, foolhardy, hare-brained, hasty, headlong, heedless, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-judged, impetuous, impolitic, imprudent, impudent, incautious, precipitate, rash, reckless, thoughtless, to lack ballast, unadvised, unreflecting, unthinking, unwary). (various references)

Italian

senza giudizio, poco giudizioso. (various references)

Korean 

지각 없�". (various references)

Manx

neuvriwnyssagh, neuchreeney (foolhardy, ill-advised, improvident, imprudent), meehushtagh (ignoramous, ignorant, stupid, undiscerning). (various references)

Pig Latin

injudiciousay.(various references)

Portuguese

injudicioso, imprudente (audacious, brash, foolhardy, hasty, headlong, heedless, hurry, ill-considered, impolitic, imprudent, inconsiderate, rash, reckless, thoughtless, unadvised, undiplomatic, unthinking, unwary, unwise), pouco sensato. (various references)

Romanian

nesocotit (harum scarum, hasty, ignored, indiscreet, scorned, thoughtless, unwise, venturesome, witless), lipsit de discernãmânt. (various references)

Russian 

неуместный (ill-placed, impertinent, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incongruous, inept, inopportune, irrelative, irrelevant, mistaken, out of place, uncalled for, uncalled-for, unseasonable). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nerazborit (senseless), nepromišljen (ill-advised, imprudent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, mindless, thoughtless, unadvised, unthinking). (various references)

Spanish

imprudente (careless, foolish, ill-judged, imprudent, indiscreet, rash, unwary, unwise), poco juicioso, penetrante (acute, bitter, clear, deep, invader, obtrusive, penetrating, penetrative, pervasive, piercing, probing, searching, sharp, shrewd). (various references)

Swedish

omdömeslös (indiscriminate, undiscerning, wrongheaded). (various references)

Thai

ซึ่งไม่ฉลา�". (various references)

Turkish

yersiz (Amiss, baseless, beside the point, digressive, discursive, idle, ill timed, impertinent, improper, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incongruous, indecent, indiscreet, inept, inexpedient, infelicitous, inopportune, irrelevant, malapropos, out of place, out of turn, uncalled for, uncomely, undue, unhappy, unjustifiable, unseasonable, untimely, untoward, unwarranted), tedbirsiz (ill-advised, ill-judged, improvident, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, unadvised, unwary), mantıksız (absurd, illegitimate, illogical, implausible, impractical, inadvisable, inconsequent, inconsequential, insensate, irrational, opaque, preposterous, senseless, unconscientious, unconscionable, unreasonable, unreasoning, wacky), düşüncesiz (blind, blindfold, brusque, careless, flighty, freewheeling, gauche, half-baked, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heady, ill-advised, ill-judged, imprudent, impulsive, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, mindless, out of turn, rash, reckless, slapdash, tactless, thoughtless, unadvised, unmindful, unreflecting, unthinking, wanton, without tact, witless). (various references)

Ukrainian

нерозсудливий (bullheaded, fond, fool, imprudent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, precipitate, reckless, unadvised, unreasonable, unwise). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thiếu suy nghĩ; dại dột, thiếu cân nhắc, tếu (corky). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "injudicious": injudiciously, injudiciousness, injudiciousnesses. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: judicious.

-4 letters: disjoin.

-5 letters: cousin, iodins, ionics, jocund, juncos.

+2 letters: injudiciously.

+4 letters: injudiciousness.