impudent

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: im=pu=dent

CIDE DICTIONARY

impudent, a. [L. impudens, -entis; pref. im- not + pudens ashamed, modest, p. pr. of pudere to feel shame: cf. F. impudent.].

•  Behaving boldly, with contempt or disregard for propriety in behavior toward others; unblushingly forward; impertinent; saucy.  [1913 Webster]

  "More than impudent sauciness."  [1913 Webster]

  "When we behold an angel, not to fear
  Is to be impudent."  [1913 Webster]
•  Lacking modesty; shameless.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Shameless; audacious; brazen; bold-faced; pert; immodest; rude; saucy; impertinent; insolent.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

impudent, adj.
1 insolently disrespectful; impertinent.
2 shamelessly presumptuous.
3 unblushing.

Derivative

impudence n. impudently adv.

Etymology

ME f. L impudens (as IN-(1), pudere be ashamed)

THESAURUS

impudent

arrant, arrogant, audacious, aweless, barefaced, biggety, blatant, bluff, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, bumptious, challenging, cheeky, chutzpadik, cocksure, cocky, contemptuous, contumelious, crusty, daring, defiant, defying, derisive, discourteous, disdainful, disparaging, disregardful, disrespectful, facy, flip, flippant, forward, fresh, gally, gratuitous, greatly daring, hubristic, ill-mannered, impertinent, impolite, improvident, imprudent, incautious, indiscreet, injudicious, insolent, irreverent, malapert, nervy, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, oversure, overweening, pert, presumptuous, procacious, rash, regardless of consequences, ridiculing, rude, sassy, saucy, shameless, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, temerarious, unabashed, unblushing, uncalled-for, unchary, uncivil, unwary, wise-ass

ROGET THESAURUS

impudent

Insolence

N insolence, haughtiness, arrogance, airs, overbearance, domineering, tyranny, impertinence, sauciness, flippancy, dicacity, petulance, procacity, bluster, swagger, swaggering, bounce, terrorism, assumption, presumption, beggar on horseback, usurpation, impudence, assurance, audacity, hardihood, front, face, brass, shamelessness, effrontery, hardened front, face of brass, assumption of infallibility, saucebox, insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary, high-handed, high and mighty, contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown, flippant, pert, fresh, cavalier, saucy, forward, impertinent, malapert, precocious, assuming, would-be, bumptious, bluff, brazen, shameless, aweless, unblushlng, unabashed, brazen, boldfaced-, barefaced-, brazen-faced, dead to shame, lost to shame, 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, with a high hand, ex cathedra, one's bark being worse than his bite, beggars mounted run their horse to death, quid times? Caesarem vehis, wagahai wa (expressing superiority).

Discourtesy

N discourtesy, ill breeding, ill manners, bad manners, ungainly manners, insuavity, uncourteousness rusticity, inurbanity, illiberality, incivility displacency, disrespect, procacity, impudence: barbarism, barbarity, misbehavior, brutality, blackguardism, conduct unbecoming a gentleman, grossieret_e, brusquerie, vulgarity, churlishness, spinosity, perversity, moroseness, sternness, austerity, moodishness, captiousness, cynicism, tartness, acrimony, acerbity, virulence, asperity, scowl, black looks, frown, short answer, rebuff, hard words, contumely, unparliamentary language, personality, bear, bruin, brute, blackguard, beast, unlicked cub, frump, crosspatch, saucebox, crooked stick, grizzly, discourteous, uncourteous, uncourtly, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-behaved, ill-conditioned, unbred, unmannerly, unmannered, impolite, unpolite, unpolished, uncivilized, ungenteel, ungentleman-like, ungentlemanly, unladylike, blackguard, vulgar, dedecorous, foul- mouthed foul-spoken, abusive, uncivil, ungracious, unceremonious, cool, pert, forward, obtrusive, impudent, rude, saucy, precocious, repulsive, uncomplaisant, unaccommodating, unneighborly, ungallant, inaffable, ungentle, ungainly, rough, rugged, bluff, blunt, gruff, churlish, boorish, bearish, brutal, brusque, stern, harsh, austere, cavalier, taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting, doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious, snarling, surly, surly as a bear, perverse, grim, sullen, peevish, untactful, impolitic, undiplomatic, artless, discourteously, with discourtesy, with a bad grace.