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imprudent

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Adjective
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im=pru=dent

CIDE DICTIONARY

imprudenta. [L. imprudens; pref. im- not + prudens prudent: cf. F. imprudent. See Prudent, and cf. Improvident.].
     Not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper.  [1913 Webster]
    "Her majesty took a great dislike at the imprudent behavior of many of the ministers and readers."  [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Indiscreet; injudicious; incautious; ill-advised; unwise; heedless; careless; rash; negligent.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

imprudent, adj. rash, indiscreet.

Derivative
imprudence n. imprudently adv.
Etymology
ME f. L imprudens (as IN-(1), PRUDENT)

THESAURUS

imprudent

blanket, brash, brazen, brazenfaced, careless, casual, crazy, foolhardy, foolish, general, hasty, heedless, hubristic, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged, impetuous, impolitic, improvident, impudent, impulsive, inadvisable, inane, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, indiscriminate, indiscriminative, inexpedient, injudicious, insane, insensate, insensitive, insolent, irrational, irresponsible, mad, mindless, misadvised, misguided, myopic, nonjudgmental, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, oversure, overweening, perverse, promiscuous, rash, reasonless, reckless, senseless, shortsighted, silly, tactless, temerarious, thoughtless, unadvised, unchary, unconsidered, uncritical, uncriticizing, undemanding, undifferentiating, undiscerning, undiscreet, undiscriminating, undiscriminative, unexacting, unfastidious, unforeseeing, unmeticulous, unparticular, unreasonable, unreflecting, unreflective, unseeing, unselective, unsensible, unsound, unsubtle, untactful, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwary, unwise, wholesale, witless, wrong

ROGET THESAURUS

imprudent

Rashness

N rashness, temerity, want of caution, imprudence, indiscretion, overconfidence, presumption, audacity, precipitancy, precipitation, impetuosity, levity, foolhardihood, foolhardiness, heedlessness, thoughtlessness, carelessness, desperation, Quixotism, knight-errantry, fire eating, gaming, gambling, blind bargain, leap in the dark, leap of faith, fool's paradise, too many eggs in one basket, desperado, rashling, madcap, daredevil, Hotspur, fire eater, bully, bravo, Hector, scapegrace, enfant perdu, Don Quixote, knight-errant, Icarus, adventurer, gambler, gamester, dynamitard, boomer, rash, incautious, indiscreet, imprudent, improvident, temerarious, uncalculating, heedless, careless, without ballast, heels over head, head over heels, giddy, wanton, reckless, wild, madcap, desperate, devil-may-care, hot-blooded, hotheaded, hotbrained, headlong, headstrong, breakneck, foolhardy, harebrained, precipitate, impulsive, overconfident, overweening, venturesome, venturous, adventurous, Quixotic, fire eating, cavalier, janty, jaunty, free and easy, off one's guard, post haste, a corps perdu, hand over head, tete baissee, headforemost, happen what may, come what may, neck or nothing, the devil being in one, non semper temeritas est felix, paucis temeritas est bono multis malo.

Neglect

N neglect, carelessness, trifling, negligence, omission, oversight, laches, default, supineness, inattention, nonchalance, imprudence, recklessness, slovenliness improvidence, noncompletion, inexactness, paralipsis, paralepsis, paraleipsis (in rhetoric), trifler, waiter on Providence, Micawber, neglecting, unmindful, negligent, neglectful, heedless, careless, thoughtless, perfunctory, remiss, feebleness, inconsiderate, uncircumspect, incircumspect, off one's guard, unwary, unwatchful, unguarded, offhand, supine, inattentive, insouciant, imprudent, reckless, slovenly inexact, improvident, neglected, unheeded, uncared-for, unperceived, unseen, unobserved, unnoticed, unnoted, unmarked, unattended to, unthought of, unregarded, unremarked, unmissed, shunted, shelved, unexamined, unstudied, unsearched, unscanned, unweighed, unsifted, unexplored, abandoned, buried in a napkin, hid under a bushel, negligently, hand over head, anyhow, in an unguarded moment, per incuriam, Int, never mind, no matter, let it pass, out of sight, out of mind.


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