Impetuous

Definition: Impetuous

Impetuous

Adjective

1. Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades"; (`brainish' is archaic).

2. Marked by violent force; "impetuous heving waves".

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Date "impetuous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Impetuous \Im*pet"u*ous\, adjective. [French expression impetueux, from Latin expression impetuosus. See Impetus.]. (references)

Synonyms: Impetuous

Desire

Eager, avid, keen; burning, fervent, ardent; agog; all agog; breathless; impatient; (impetuous); bent on, intent on, set on, bent upon, intent upon, set upon; mad after, enrage, rabid, dying for, devoured by desire.

Excitability

Impulsive, impetuous, passionate; uncontrolled, uncontrollable; ungovernable, irrepressible, stanchless, inextinguishable, burning, simmering, volcanic, ready to burst forth, volatile.

Feeling

Pervading, penetrating, absorbing; rabid, raving, feverish, fanatical, hysterical; impetuous; (excitable).

Haste

Adjective: hasty, hurried, brusque; scrambling, cursory, precipitate, headlong, furious, boisterous, impetuous, hotheaded; feverish, fussy; pushing.

Violence

Adjective: violent, vehement; warm; acute, sharp; rough, rude, ungentle, bluff, boisterous, wild; brusque, abrupt, waspish; impetuous; rampant.

Crosswords: Impetuous

Impetuous! Homeric (The Quiet Man; writing credit: Frank S. Nugent; Maurice Walsh)

He's so impetuous. (Wild Wild West; writing credit: Jim Thomas; John Thomas)

Batgirl was strong but impetuous. You've grown into a thoughtful, beautiful woman with the capacity to care more for others than you do for yourself (Birds of Prey; writing credit: Adam Armus; Nora Kay Foster)

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

Books

• Impetuous (reference)

• Impetuous (Harlequin Temptation, No 572) (reference)

• Impetuous Innocent (reference)

• Impetuous Marriage (Harlequin Presents) (reference)

• The Impetuous Bride (Romance, 3676) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Impetuous Fire (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Clear Impetuous Morning (reference)

• My Impetuous Heart (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

The attack was impetuous, and such as to make the boldest ponder

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Albanian

i vrullshëm (blusterous, blustery, convulsive, darting, dashing, drastic, explosive, rash, rattling, spasmodic, sudden, sweeping, tearaway, tearing, thrifty, vehement, vigorous), i rrëmbyer (brusque, fractious, heady, hot-headed, impulsive, precipitate, precipitous, rapt, short tempered, tempestuous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مندفع بعنف, ‏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, impish, imprudent, impulsive, inconsiderate, light-headed, madcap, precipitate, precipitous, rash, reckless, slapdash, temerarious, too hasty, unrestrained, unwary), ‏عنيف (bitter, dragon's, drastic, fell, fierce, gory, heady, knockabout, outrageous, passionate, rabid, rigorous, robust, rough, rude, ruthless, scurrilous, set, severe, sharp, shrewd, smart, stiff, stout, strenuous, stringent, strong, torricellian, tough, tumultuous, turbulent, vehement, violent, volcanic), ‏طائش (bad, careless, flighty, foolhardy, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, hasty, heedless, imprudent, 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). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стремителен (brash, headlong, heady, puffy, slashing, soaring, tearaway, torrential, vehement), устремен, необмислен (blind, crude, hasty, heedless, ill-considered, ill-judged, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, light hearted, light-headed, overbold, precipitate, precipitatious, rash, reckless, snap, thoughtless, unadvised, unconsidered, unguarded, unthinking, unwary, wild), буен (bacchanalian, blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, furious, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, incandescent, jazz, jazzy, knockabout, lively, lush, luxuriant, obstreperous, opulent, phrenetic, prancing, profuse, proud, puffy, puppyish, rambunctious, rampant, rank, riotous, roaring, rough, rough and tumble, rousing, rude, rumbustious, spicy, spirited, sweeping, thick, torrential, tumultuous, turbulent, unchecked, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, vigorous, violent, wanton, zizzi), прибързан (brash, hasty, headlong, ill-advised, light hearted, overbold, precipitate, precipitatious, premature, previous, rash, slapdash, sudden, unthinking, untimely, unwary), поривист (gusty, turbulent). (various references)

Chinese 

孟浪 (hasty, rash), 急躁 (irascible, irritable), 浮躁. (various references)

Czech

zbrklý (rash), ukvapený (hasty, precipitate, precipitous, premature, rash, sudden, unadvised), prudký (abrupt, acrimonious, big, bulge, effervescent, ferocious, fierce, fiery, glaring, grievous, gusty, heady, heated, heavy, high, hot tempered, hot-headed, intense, keen, passional, passionate, peppery, rapid, rash, robust, rude, sharp, steep, stormy, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, towering, tumultuous, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent). (various references)

Farsi 

تندوشدید, بی پروا (Adventurer, Audacious, Confident, Daredevil, Dashing, Harebrained, Headlong, Heady, Heedless, Inconsiderate, Rash, Reckless, Slapdash, Unadvised, Unscrupulous). (various references)

Finnish

kiihkeä (ardent, hot, passionate, violent). (various references)

French

impétueux (impish, impulsive), violent, véhémence, grose, fougueux. (various references)

German

impulsiv (heady, impulsive, impulsively, volatile), ungestüm (boisterous, boisterously, boisterousness, impetuosity, impetuousness, unruly, vehemence, vehement), stürmisch (ardent, blustering, blustery, boisterous, driving, frenzied, furious, gustily, gusty, madcap, passionate, rapid, rapturous, rousing, squally, stormy, tempestuous, thunderous, thunderously, tumultuous, tumultuously, turbulent, turbulently, uproarious, vehemently, wild), heftig (acute, ardent, bitter, boisterous, boisterously, bold, burning, cordial, driving, ferocious, fierce, furious, hotly, impetuously, intemperate, intense, irascible, keen, lashing, passionate, profuse, profusely, quick, raging, severe, severely, sharp, splitting, stormy, strongly, tempestuous, tempestuously, testily, uproarious, vehement, vehemently, vigorous, violent, violently, volcanic, warm, wild). (various references)

Greek 

βίαιοσ (abrupt, blustery, forcible, rampageous, slashing, strong arm, violent), παράφοροσ (hot tempered, madding, passionate), ακράτητοσ (furious, irrepressible, rampant, resistless, uncontrolled, undeterred, unrestrained), ακάθεκτοσ, ακάθεκτος (unrestrained), ασυγκράτητοσ (unrestrained), απερίσκεπτος (airy, foolhardy, indiscreet, rash, reckless, thoughtless), ορμητικόσ (brash, dashing, heady, impulsive, vehement), ορμητικός (surging). (various references)

Hebrew 

פזיז (careless, fickle, harebrained, hasty, headlong, impulsive, nimble, precipitous, rash, slapdash, slaphappy), נמהר (abrupt, hasty, precipitant, rash, sudden, unadvised, unthinking). (various references)

Hungarian

zabolátlan (bull-headed, intemperate, rampageous, unmanageable), tüzes (ardent, fierce, fiery, heated, igneous, mettled, mettlesome, temperament, to feel one's oats), meggondolatlan (blindfold, blundering, foolhardy, hare-brained, hasty, headlong, heedless, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-judged, impolitic, imprudent, impudent, incautious, injudicious, precipitate, rash, reckless, thoughtless, to lack ballast, unadvised, unreflecting, unthinking, unwary), lobbanékony (emotional, explosive, flammable, hot-brained, hot-headed, impulsive, inflammable, quick tempered, quick-tempered, short, testy, tetchy, warm), indulatos (hot, hot-spirited, hot-tempered, mettlesome, nettled, peppery, short tempered), hirtelenkedő, heves (acute, boisterous, explosive, fervent, fervid, fulmination, heady, heated, hot, hot-tempered, intense, keen, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, poignant, rampageous, sanguine, short tempered, snoring, to run the gauntlet of adverse criticism, vehement, warm), féktelen (boisterous, lawless, licentious, madcap, obstreperous, rambunctious, rampageous, robustic, towering, turbulent, unbounded, unbridled, unrestrained, unruled, wanton), elhamarkodott (hasty, incautious, inconsiderate, precipitant, precipitate, premature), dühöngő (berserk, frenzied, grim, rampageous, raving). (various references)

Indonesian

tak sabar (impatient). (various references)

Italian

irruente, impetuoso (boisterous, dashing, forceful, headlong, heady, hot, hot-headed, impulsive, rapid, slapdash, slaphappy, sweeping, vehement, violent), veemente (heavy, vehement, violent). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

奮迅 (impetuous dash forward). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふんじん (dust, impetuous dash forward). (various references)

Korean 

성급한 (impatient). (various references)

Manx

siyragh (cursory, expeditious, hastening, hasty, hurried, passion, prompt, rash), raghtal (impatient, obstinate, rash, stubborn, violent). (various references)

Norwegian

voldsom (fierce, intense), heftig (fiery). (various references)

Pig Latin

impetuousay.(various references)

Portuguese

impetuoso (dashing, fiery, forcible, furious, headlong, heady, hot, hot-brained, hot-headed, hot-tempered, lawless, licentious, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, riotous, slapdash, tearing, tempestuous, vehement, violent, volcanic), violento (blustering, boisterous, desperate, drastic, elbow-grease, fierce, forceful, forcible, furious, heady, hot, hot-brained, hot-headed, hot-tempered, joggly, judas-colored, judas-coloured, rabid, racking, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, red, rough, rude, ruffianly, sledge-hammer, smart, smashing, spasmodic, splitting, stormy, swashing, swingeing, tearing, tempestuous, thunderous, tough, towering, two-fisted, uncontrollable, vehement, viatic, violent, virulent), fogoso (ardent, burning, dashing, fiery, frisky, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hot-headed, hotspur, hot-tempered, mettled, mettlesome, proud, proud-spirited, unruly), arrebatador (catchy, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fairy, magic, magical, orphic, rapturous, ravishing, ripping, thrilling, vibrant), arrebatado (desperate, furious, harum-scarum, heady, passionate, rapt, rapturous, rash, rumbustious, stormy, towering, warm). (various references)

Romanian

impetuos (dashing, fiercely, headlong, heady, high-spirited, hothead, hot-headed, impetuously, raging, rash, robustious, stormy, tumultuous, tumultuously), violent (acute, bad, boisterous, desperate, fiercely, furious, heady, heavy, high, high-spirited, raging, rampageous, rampant, rankly, robust, rough, rowdy, rude, rugged, severe, sharp, splitting, strong, sudden, towering, truculent, ungovernable, vehement, violent, virulent, wanton), sãlbatic (barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, cruel, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, fiery, haggard, harsh, inhuman, inhumanly, rugged, sanguinary, savage, shaggy, tameless, truculent, uncivilized, uncouth, uncouthly, uncultivated, uncultured, ungovernable, unruly, unsociable, violent, wild, wild man), pripit (beforehand, foolish, hasty, hurried, previous, quick, rash, rashly, thoughtless), precipitat (hastily, hurried, overhasty, precipitate), nãvalnic (dashing, heady, impetuously, rash, stormy, unbridled), nãprasnic (amazing, awful, sudden, suddenly, terrible, tremendous, unexpected, violent), aprig (cruel, ferocious, fierce, fiery, grim, hard-hearted, harshly, high-spirited, passionate, passionately, severe, sharp, truculent, violent). (various references)

Russian 

стремительный (darting, rash, rathe, sweeping, tearaway), опрометчивый (harebrained, headlong, heady, hot-headed, ill-advised, imprudent, incautious, overbold, precipitate, rash, reckless, unwary), порывистый (brash, choppy, fitful, gusty, jerky, squally). (various references)

Scottish

bras (fast, keen, quick, rapid, rash, speedy, swift, vehement). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

plahovit (effusive, fiery, heady, hotspur, tumultuary, ugly), nagao (hasty, hotspur, impulsive, precipitant, precipitate, precipitatious, rude, rush, sudden, temerarious). (various references)

Spanish

impetuoso (headstrong, hothead, hotheaded, impulsive, violent). (various references)

Swedish

impulsiv (impervious, impulsive), våldsam (ferocious, heavy, hurly burly, intemperate, intense, passionate, savage, slashing, swingeing, tearing, tremendous, turbulent, vehement, vicious, violent), uppbrusande (hot tempered), häftig (ardent, be furious, blustery, darting, excessive, explosive, exquisite, ferocious, fierce, flaming, fulminant, furious, groovy, gusty, heady, heavy, intense, irascible, jazzy, keen, passionate, quick, quick tempered, rude, smart, throe, vehement, violent, virulent, volcanic). (various references)

Turkish

tez canlı (fast, impatient, restless, sharp, swift), hızlı (crash, expeditious, express, fast, fastmoving, fleet, frequent, hasty, high speed, light footed, nippy, precipitous, presto, quick, quick-action, rakish, rapid, ready, snappy, speed, speedy, swift, winged, zippy), düşüncesizce yapılan (unthinking), coşkun (ardent, boiling over, ebullient, effervescent, elated, exalted, exuberant, fervent, frenzied, overflowing, rhapsodic, rhapsodical, sharp), şiddetli (acute, astringent, bitter, brutal, burning, cast iron, consuming, deep, drastic, exquisite, extreme, ferocious, flaming, flash, forceful, frenetic, frenzied, fulminant, furious, gusty, hard, harsh, heavy, high, hot, intemperate, intense, intensive, ironclad, keen, profound, rigorous, round, severe, sharp, slashing, sledgehammer, smacking, smart, smashing, spanking, splitting, stand up, stern, stinging, stormy, strenuous, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, torrential, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), aceleci (brash, hasty, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, hustler, impatient, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, rash, slippy). (various references)

Ukrainian

стрімкий (abrupt, bluff, bluffy, craggy, dashing, heady, precipitant, tear away), гарячий (ardent, broiling, earnest, fervent, hot, hot tempered, hot-brained, hotheaded, mettled, mettlesome, ornery, scalding, torrid, warm). (various references)

Vietnamese 

mạnh mẽ (boot, energetic, furious, fury, lusty, manly, mightily, pithily, pretty, rousing, sinewy, sturdy, vibrant, violent, vivid), mãnh liệt bốc, hăng (acrid), dữ dội (boot, formidable, heavy, high, keen, ravenous, rude, severse, thundering, towering, vehement, violent). (various references)

fervens, fervente, ferventes, ferventis, vehemens, violenta, violenti, violentorum, violentum, violentus. (various references)

â-mananghô. (various references)

vehement. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "impetuous": impetuously, impetuousness, impetuousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Impetuous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amphthous, impenuous, impestuous, impetious, impetius, impetous, impetuas, impetuious, impetuos. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: impetus, imputes, mopiest, optimes, piteous, timeous, uptimes, utopism.

-3 letters: impose, impost, impute, opiums, optime, ostium, potsie, septum, somite, sopite, sputum, tempos, upmost, uptime.

-4 letters: emits, estop, etuis, items, meous, metis, mites, moist, mopes, moste, motes, moues, mouse, mutes, omits, opium, pesto, pious, piste, poems, poets, poise, pomes, posit, pouts, setup, situp, smite, smote.

+2 letters: impetuously.

+3 letters: multipurpose.

+4 letters: bumptiousness, impetuousness.

+5 letters: micropunctures, outmanipulates, superambitious.