imprudence

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: im=pru=dence

CIDE DICTIONARY

imprudence, n. [L. imprudentia: cf. F. imprudence. Cf. Improvidence.].

 The quality or state of being imprudent; want to caution, circumspection, or a due regard to consequences; indiscretion; inconsideration; rashness; also, an imprudent act; as, he was guilty of an imprudence.  [1913 Webster]
"His serenity was interrupted, perhaps, by his own imprudence."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

imprudence

absurdity, act of folly, blunder, brashness, brass, brazen boldness, callowness, casualness, cheek, childishness, chutzpah, crudity of intellect, dumb trick, folly, gall, heroics, hubris, immaturity, improvidence, impudence, inadvisability, inattention, inconsideration, indiscreetness, indiscretion, indiscriminateness, indiscrimination, inexpedience, injudiciousness, insensibility, insensitivity, insolence, irrationality, lack of feeling, lack of refinement, overboldness, overcarelessness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweeningness, pompousness, promiscuity, promiscuousness, puerility, rashness, reasonlessness, recklessness, senselessness, sottise, stuffiness, stupid thing, stupidity, syncretism, tactlessness, temerariousness, temerity, thoughtlessness, unchariness, uncriticalness, undiscriminatingness, undiscriminativeness, unfastidiousness, unintelligence, unmeticulousness, unparticularness, unpreciseness, unreason, unreasonableness, unselectiveness, unsensibleness, unsoundness, untactfulness, unthoughtfulness, unwariness, unwisdom, unwise step, unwiseness, witlessness

ROGET THESAURUS

imprudence

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.