FromMiddle Frenchimprudent, fromLatinimprūdens(“not foreseeing, ignorant”), prefixim-(“not”) +prūdens(“foreseeing, skilled, judicious”).
imprudent (comparativemoreimprudent,superlativemostimprudent)
- Notprudent; lackingprudence ordiscretion;indiscreet;injudicious; not paying attention to theconsequences of one's actions.
- Synonyms:indiscreet,injudicious,incautious,ill-advised,unwise,heedless,careless,rash,negligent
- Antonym:prudent
1711,John Strype,Life and Acts of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury:Here Her Majesty took a great dislike at theimprudent behavior of many of the Ministers and Readers.
1853, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, chapter 3, inPhantom Fortune[1], archived fromthe original on12 April 2012:‘It was a most 'imprudent thing to go up Helvellyn in such weather,’ said Fräulein Müller, shaking her head gloomily as she ate her fish.
1864, Jules Verne, chapter 3, inJourney to the Interior of the Earth[2], archived fromthe original on12 April 2012:My uncle, falling back into his absorbing contemplations, had already forgotten myimprudent words. I merely sayimprudent, for the great mind of so learned a man of course had no place for love affairs, and happily the grand business of the document gained me the victory.
not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper
- Bulgarian:неблагоразумен (bg)(neblagorazumen),необмислен (bg)(neobmislen)
- Catalan:imprudent
- Esperanto:malprudenta
- Finnish:harkitsematon (fi),epäviisas (fi)
- French:imprudent (fr)
- Galician:imprudente (gl)
- German:unklug (de),unbedacht (de)
- Irish:aimhghlic,ainchríonna,díchéillí,éigríonna,místuama,neamhchríonna
- Italian:imprudente (it)
- Latin:imprūdens
- Macedonian:нео́бмислен(neóbmislen),нера́зумен(nerázumen)
- Manx:anchreeney
- Māori:mākū(w)are,raukeke
- Portuguese:imprudente (pt)
- Romanian:imprudent (ro)
- Spanish:imprudente (es)
- Swedish:oklok (sv)
- Turkish:basiretsiz (tr),ihtiyatsız (tr),tedbirsiz (tr)
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“imprudent”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
Borrowed fromLatinimprūdentem.
imprudent m orf (masculine and feminine pluralimprudents)
- imprudent,unwise
- Antonym:prudent
- “imprudent”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition,Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “imprudent”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2026
- “imprudent” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “imprudent” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Learned borrowing fromLatinimprūdens. Morphologically analyzable asim- +prudent.
imprudent (feminineimprudente,masculine pluralimprudents,feminine pluralimprudentes)
- imprudent,incautious,reckless,unwise
- Antonym:prudent
Borrowed fromFrenchimprudent. Equivalent toin- +prudent.
imprudent m orn (feminine singularimprudentă,masculine pluralimprudenți,feminine/neuter pluralimprudente)
- imprudent
