impetuous

Speech parts

1. impetuous - Adjective

2. impetuous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Rushing with force and violence; moving with impetus; furious; forcible; violent; as, an impetuous wind; an impetuous torrent.

Vehement in feeling; hasty; passionate; violent; as, a man of impetuous temper.

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Examples

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling. Petrarch

I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her. Niccolò Machiavelli

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex. James Madison

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding. Ellen G. White

Such impetuous schemes and boldness are at first sight alluring, but are difficult to handle, and in the result disastrous. Livy

The first drink makes you a frisky gazelle, the second an impetuous zebra, the third a roaring lion, and with the fourth you become a silly donkey. Turkish Proverb

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