impertinence

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: im=per=ti=nence

CIDE DICTIONARY

impertinence, n. [Cf. F. impertinence. See Impertinent.].

•  The condition or quality of being impertinent; absence of pertinence, or of adaptedness; irrelevance; unfitness.  [1913 Webster]
•  Conduct or language unbecoming the person, the society, or the circumstances; rudeness; incivility.  [1913 Webster]

  "We should avoid the vexation and impertinence of pedants who affect to talk in a language not to be understood."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is impertinent; a thing out of place, or of no value.  [1913 Webster]

  "There are many subtile impertinences learned in schools."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

impertinence

arrogance, audacity, bold front, boldness, brash bearing, brashness, brass, brassiness, bravado, brazenfacedness, brazenness, bumptiousness, butting-in, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah, cockiness, contempt, contemptuousness, daring, daringness, defial, defiance, defying, derision, despite, disassociation, disconnection, discourtesy, discreteness, disdain, disjunction, disjuncture, disregard, disrespect, disrespectfulness, dissociation, effrontery, face of brass, flippancy, forwardness, freshness, gall, hardihood, immateriality, impoliteness, impudence, inapplicability, inappositeness, incivility, inconnection, inconsequence, independence, inquisitiveness, insolence, intermeddling, intrusiveness, irrelation, irrelevance, meddlesomeness, meddling, nerve, obtrusiveness, officiousness, pertness, presumption, presumptuousness, ridicule, rudeness, sauciness, separateness, unconnectedness, unrelatedness

ROGET THESAURUS

impertinence

Irrelation

N irrelation, dissociation, misrelation, inapplicability, inconnection, multifariousness, disconnection, inconsequence, independence, incommensurability, irreconcilableness, heterogeneity, unconformity, irrelevancy, impertinence, nihil ad rem, intrusion, non-pertinence, irrelative, irrespective, unrelated, arbitrary, independent, unallied, unconnected, disconnected, adrift, isolated, insular, extraneous, strange, alien, foreign, outlandish, exotic, not comparable, incommensurable, heterogeneous, unconformable, irrelevant, inapplicable, not pertinent, not to the, purpose, impertinent, inapposite, beside the mark, a propos de bottes, aside from the purpose, away from the purpose, foreign to the purpose, beside the purpose, beside the question, beside the transaction, beside the point, misplaced, traveling out of the record, remote, far-fetched, out of the way, forced, neither here nor there, quite another thing, detached, segregate, disquiparant, multifarious, discordant, incidental, parenthetical, obiter dicta, episodic, parenthetically, by the way, by the by, en passant, incidentally, irrespectively, without reference to, without regard to, in the abstract, a se.

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).