Imprudent

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Imprudent \Im*pru"dent\, a. [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. --
     {Im*pru"dent*ly}, adv.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           Her majesty took a great dislike at the imprudent
           behavior of many of the ministers and readers.
                                                    --Strype.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Indiscreet; injudicious; incautious; ill-advised;
          unwise; heedless; careless; rash; negligent.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  imprudent
       adj 1: not prudent or wise; "very imprudent of her mother to
              encourage her in such silly romantic ideas"; "would be
              imprudent for a noneconomist to talk about the details
              of economic policy"- A.M.Schlesinger [ant: {prudent}]
       2: lacking wise self-restraint; "an imprudent remark"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  93 Moby Thesaurus words for "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