Impetuously

  

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Impetuously

Definition: Impetuously

Impetuously

Adverb

1. In an impulsive or impetuous way; without taking cautions; "he often acts impulsively and later regrets it".

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

Date "impetuously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonym: Impetuously

Synonym: impulsively (adv). (additional references)

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Use in Literature: Impetuously

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

She interrupted him impetuously.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Impetuously

"Impetuously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Impetuously" is used about 21 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%2176,261

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Impetuously

Language Translations for "impetuously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

tërsëllëm (violently). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

浮躁地. (various references)

   

German

  

heftige (boisterously, violently), heftig (acute, ardent, bitter, boisterous, boisterously, bold, burning, cordial, driving, ferocious, fierce, furious, hotly, impetuous, 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)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ずる賢い (gap, hastily, petty, rapidly, slippage, sly, small-minded, stingy, to badger, to slide, to slip off). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

せかせか (hastily). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

성급하게 (impatiently). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

impetuouslyay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

impetuos (dashing, fiercely, headlong, heady, high-spirited, hothead, hot-headed, impetuous, raging, rash, robustious, stormy, tumultuous, tumultuously), nãvalnic (dashing, heady, impetuous, rash, stormy, unbridled). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Impetuously

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

vehementer. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Impetuously

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-l-m-o-p-s-t-u-u-y"

-2 letters: impetuous, piteously, timeously.

-3 letters: lumpiest, milepost, multiuse, outsmile, outyelps, plumiest, polemist, tumulose.

-4 letters: employs, emptily, emulous, impetus, impulse, imputes, isotype, limpest, limpets, limpsey, luteous, mistype, moistly, mopiest, motiles, motleys, mousily, mustily, mutuels, mutules, myopies, optimes, outlies, outyelp, peyotls, pileous, piolets, piously, pistole, piteous, plumose, pluteus, pumelos, pustule, slipout, stipule, timeous, tupelos, uptimes, utopism.

-5 letters: employ, impels, impose, impost, impute, letups, limeys, limpet, limpsy, litmus, louies, loupes, lupous, luteum, moiety, molest, molies, mostly, motels, motile, motley, moults, mousey, muesli, muleys, mutely, mutuel, mutule, myopes, oleums, opiums, optime, ostium, outlie, peyotl, pileum, pileus, pilose, pilots, pilous, piolet, pistol, plumes, plutei, poilus, poleis, polies, polite, polity, potsie, poults, pumelo, pusley, septum, simple, simply, smiley, solute, somite, sopite, spoilt, sputum, stipel, stumpy, stymie, telium, tempos, tepoys, timely, toiles, tousle, tulips, tumuli, tupelo, ultimo, upmost, uptime.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Impetuously


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 6D 70 65 74 75 6F 75 73 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    --    .--.    .    -    ..-    ---    ..-    ...    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101101 01110000 01100101 01110100 01110101 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#109 &#112 &#101 &#116 &#117 &#111 &#117 &#115 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006D 0070 0065 0074 0075 006F 0075 0073 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4379827186878187857891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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